"The UK government has delayed publication of its long-promised digital roadmap, a plan it says could eventually help save up to £45 billion of taxpayers' money by modernizing creaking public sector IT. Speaking to MPs last week, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) permanent secretary Emran Mian said the Government Digital and AI Roadmap - meant to improve data sharing across government - was due by the end of last year, but had hit stumbling blocks."
""We had hoped to do that before Christmas - indeed, I think both officials and ministers said to Parliament that we hoped to do so before Christmas," "We were not able to, but we are hoping to do so very imminently, this month. That roadmap will cover the full spectrum of improvements that we are looking to make in data and digital. That will put us in a much better position to be able to run data analytics on top of, to be able to tackle fraud and error. That is the next part of the plan.""
The Government Digital and AI Roadmap, intended to improve data sharing across departments, has been delayed after missing its end-of-last-year deadline. The roadmap encountered stumbling blocks but is expected imminently. The roadmap aims to cover the full spectrum of data and digital improvements to enable analytics for tackling fraud and error and modernize creaking public-sector IT, with potential savings up to £45 billion. The NAO estimates fraud and error cost taxpayers £55–81 billion in 2023–24. The government's Blueprint for Modern Digital Government planned a roadmap publication alongside the second phase of the Spending Review in summer 2025.
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