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Concordat Between the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet of the National Assembly for Wales

Annex A – Policy areas covered by agreement

( see paragraph 2)

Management of the Home Civil Service (including delivery of the Civil Service aspects of the Modernising Government programme [Archived website]).

Implementation of the Modernising Government [Archived website] White Paper programme, covering:

• the delivery of better public service in the UK, encompassed in the Service First [Archived website] programme and its component parts, including the People's Panel, Better Government for Older People programme, and the Charter Mark award scheme;
• Information age government, including sharing of best practice and progress monitoring;
• best practice in the delivery of better public service, including: guidance on efficiency techniques and contracting out (such as the recent Better Quality Services [Archived website]); guidance on the Handling of Parliamentary Ombudsman Cases, Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide to Departments, and guidance on best practice in public appointments[External website]; standards in public life; Next Steps Executive Agency and NDPB quinquennial reviews and annual reports, and bench-marking [Archived website]; and
• Better Regulation, including regulatory impact assessment, enforcement, control of Government forms, and the work of the Better Regulation Taskforce.

Cross-cutting issues, including:

• co-ordination of anti-drugs policies;
• the work of the Social Exclusion Unit [External website];
• the work of the Performance and Innovation Unit;
• the work of the Women's Unit [External website], including UK commitments following on from the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing and the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.