The Department’s working relationships with others in government vary in maturity and other government departments have mixed views on the Department’s remit.20 To agree roles and responsibilities between departments, the Department told us it had introduced ‘handshake agreements’.21 However, the NAO’s report highlighted these had yet to be adopted by the majority of sector teams.22 We asked the Department about its assessment of the need for joined-up, whole-of-government thinking, and why it does not have an MoU with every department it interacts with to ensure they have shared expectations. The Department told us it was confident government departments were aligned under the growth mission, but it committed to consider the potential of having formal agreements between itself and its partners.23