During an evidence session on the framework held by the Local Government and Communities Committee on 16 December 2020, a Scottish Government Official stated the following:
There has been a series of engagements, and the framework has gone through a number of stages including, in March 2019, a technical round-table meeting with stakeholders to check that they were all content and, in August 2019 and January 2020, review and assessment panels involving officials from the four Administrations.