Officials told us that they struggled to access the data that they needed that existed elsewhere in government to support emergency responses. The recent pandemic demonstrated that agreeing data sharing under the Digital Economy Act 2017 can be cumbersome and take too much time to be practical in an emergency.
Improving data and interoperability is a systemic challenge for government. Public bodies have different approaches to data governance and data is dispersed across central and local government bodies. Different software and hardware may be used, and the same information recorded in different ways.
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