The Cabinet Office reset the governance of shared services in 2025. In July of that year, the Cabinet Office initially proposed to respond to NISTA’s recommendations with a Government Corporate Services Board.61 The Cabinet Office explained to us that this board would have brought together stakeholders from the Shared Services Strategy, as well as 54 C&AG’s Report, Government shared services, Session 2022–23, HC 921, 30 November 2022, para 2.9 55 Committee of Public Accounts, Government Shared Services, Fiftieth Report of Session 2022–23, HC 734, 5 May 2023, Introduction. 56 Q 49 57 Q 50; Letter from the Cabinet Office to PAC dated 3 June 2026, p.5 58 Q 79 59 Qq 31, 33 60 C&AG’s Report, paras 3.2, 3.6, 3.7 61 C&AG’s Report, para 3.5 16 other initiatives affecting government’s back-office services more widely.62 The Government Corporate Services Board did not go ahead, replaced instead by the present two-tier model. One cluster has expressed concern that the two-tier set-up would not be able to improve the management of interdependencies.63