The Treasury’s secrecy and unwillingness to share analysis across Whitehall departments led to “problematic” government-decision making in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a report has claimed.
The government’s economic and finance ministry “excelled” in the “broadly successful” economic support schemes but its reticence to sharing research “contributed to decision-making becoming a tug of war”, a report by the Institute for Government (IfG) said.
