The minister has been engaged in a fierce inter- departmental battle over food safety.
Their job is to prevent policies being pulled out of shape by inter- departmental tugs-of-war, or problems disappearing between the cracks at departmental boundaries.
The University of Saskatchewan undergraduate program in medicine is currently organized into departmentally based and inter-departmental courses.
There was a flurry of inter-departmental activity.
This led to an inter-departmental committee, which Hughes chaired.
A parliamentary initiative in 1904, the inter-departmental committee on physical deterioration, set the ball rolling.
In fact, there are times when inter-departmental journalistic rivalry positively revels in it.
In response, mandarins and ministers set up an inter-departmental review of the law, which Hughes chaired.
Different teams, including social care, therapy, and patient transport are present at the meetings allowing for inter-departmental communication.
Can it really be that inter-departmental accounting procedures are why Britain was slow to rescue its imperilled citizens?
Yet, post-devolution, Wales will not automatically have a seat on the inter-departmental committees which thrash out government policy.
