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What can be done to improve the co-ordination of policies across all areas of the budget so that, when one has a positive effect, it is not negated by a policy in another area?
The British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly has been in existence for a long time. It allows co-ordination between parliamentarians from the different areas, and I know from experience how valuable its work is.
If regional and city programmes were co-ordinated, it could also support teams of associated skills in production, event delivery, art administration, marketing and so on.
That is something that we can take away, and we can have more discussions with our UK audit agency partners and the UK Cabinet Office, which co-ordinates the national fraud initiative.
There is no one question there—I am simply hoping that the witnesses will reflect on how we can improve the strategic co-ordination of advice, support and benefit take-up activity.
That does not mean that Belgium has several foreign policies; rather, it means that there is careful co-ordination between the two levels of government.