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The lead department is responsible for ensuring that proposals have been discussed in advance with Ministers, officials in other interested Departments and HM Treasury (if there are public expenditure implications). No paper should come as a surprise to another department. Officials meetings are useful forums to share proposals but early drafts of papers can equally be emailed around departmental colleagues for comment. The results of these discussions should be reflected in the paper submitted to the Committee.