However, there is little incentive for departments to invest in programmes that deliver benefits elsewhere in government.33 We challenged HM Treasury on whether Permanent Secretaries received sufficient recognition for delivering outcomes across multiple departments. HM Treasury acknowledged the importance of rewarding and recognising those who invest time in cross-government delivery and that HM Treasury needed to use every lever available to try to increase the use of cross-government working. HM Treasury told us that politicians in government played an important role in incentivising senior officials to deliver cross-government working by setting cross-cutting priority outcomes.34