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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Okay. And why do you think you were appointed?

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10 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1263)

Good morning, Ms Bassett. What motivated you to apply for this role?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Was the funding for his post part of the additional resource that came from the Cabinet Office?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Before I ask about the integrated data service, I want to come back to the previous point about funding. You said that funding had been an issue previously. In the discussions you had with the board and your ministerial masters in the Cabinet Office, were you raising concerns about funding?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

But did you ask Government? Did you ask Ministers for more money?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

So you were able to get extra money in response to your call for help.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Correct. So funding then wasn’t an issue.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Sorry; I am not clear. You earlier said that funding was part of the problem. I have now asked, did you request more funding? You were then given more funding, so did that resolve the questions?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Right. So funding wasn’t an issue after that.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

That is my point. Were you making that point to Ministers?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Told by whom?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

So they were trying to restrict requests?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Were these discussions all informal or would there be a formal note of these discussions?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

You would hope?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

It was not normal practice to record and note something about—?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Okay. Can you explain to the Committee what the integrated data service was, and whose idea it was?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Has it been a success, do you think?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Other witnesses identified the issue with data access. Are you able to tell us which Departments, or individuals within Government, were blocking access to data, or not sharing data in the way that you envisaged?

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

Why? Tell us.

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9 Sept 2025Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 847)

We like honesty and transparency in this Committee. Professor Sir Ian Diamond—but there has been a lot of effort on data sharing, and it has not been successful.

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