A copy of the letter from Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, to the Tower Hamlets Ministerial Envoys in response to their first report. The Minister notes the progress made in the intervention, but shares the Ministerial Envoys’ concerns that wholesale political and staff buy-in and involvement in the Council’s improvement journey is not yet in place. Ministers have not ruled out the possibility of further actions being taken in the future should the Council not make the necessary steps over the coming months to collaborate meaningfully with the Ministerial Envoys and to proactively drive its own improvement.