2.21 Most initiatives are developed and led centrally by the CCS or the OCS on behalf of government as a whole. We spoke to a few departments and identified further initiatives they had introduced to reduce barriers for the SMEs they work with. Each department has an SME champion and these champions meet with the CCS quarterly. All the departments we met agreed that these meetings would be a good opportunity to share ideas for what works well, but this has not always happened regularly. The CCS told us it has sought to increase opportunities for sharing best practice over the last year, both from departments and those within CCS responsible for cross-government spending.