Government recognises that the scale of the challenge on data is also enormous. It hopes that its data maturity framework will help address data maturity challenges across government. However, the committee has taken evidence many times on the challenges on data yet government has made little dent in addressing the issues in the last decade.48 One of the challenges to joining up citizen data is that it is not seen as a priority for one department to do work to benefit another department when compared to their own pressing priorities.49