Collaboration is absolutely key to ensuring that any funding we get and the delivery of programmes with that funding aligns with our local priorities, learns the lessons of previous funding programmes, does not duplicate anything that we are already doing or any existing provision and ensures best value for money. In my view, the best way to do that is meaningful collaboration with the people who are delivering the programmes: the community and voluntary sector and other partners, including local government. Also, in preparation for the successor fund, my Department has already begun working on a cross-departmental basis and has been engaging with the community and voluntary sector to understand the lessons from the Shared Prosperity Fund and to be prepared for moving forward.