The Treasury told us that some of its staff work on monitoring the health of the UK corporate sector overall, by looking at a series of indicators.25 It told us that actively monitoring the corporate sector is an important and critical part of what the Treasury does centrally. The Department for Business and Trade also explained its “industry brief” and its “role in economic shocks generally, and monitoring and forecasting”. Nonetheless the Treasury told us that it is reliant on departments monitoring their own sectors.26