The Cabinet Office told us it focusses on cross-cutting risks that can only be addressed at the centre of government. It addresses these risks through the production of the national risk register and the national security risk assessment, and through summarising risks across ALBs and examining these for patterns and themes.31 However, there is currently no function within the Cabinet Office that is responsible for liaising with the Government Finance Function on cross-departmental and ALB risk. As the Government Finance Function leads the oversight and reporting of risks to the Civil Service Board, a lack of interaction between these two bodies makes it difficult for the centre of government to understand where risks exist across the board.32 Data and legacy IT systems