The Gateway program itself is now internationally trademarked to protect its integrity. So if it is not a Mars Bar it is a Coca Cola. You know it arrives tasting good, at the right temperature and it arrives in the same shape all of the time. And like Coca Cola, OGC do not distribute the products unless we are quite sure they are in good hands. There is more to do, since there is an ever-growing need to keep building capability at very senior levels. The policy makers and the politicians have shown great enthusiasm and patience in being involved with this Gateway process and they want to continue to be involved.

The UK Cabinet Secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull gave the nicest accolade the Gateway program has had. He said, ‘The OGC Gateway program is one of those more rare initiatives that has permanently changed Government’.