Cabinet Office written statement – made am ar 29 Chwefror 2024.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
Minister of State (Cabinet Office)
In June 2022, the Government published Transforming for a Digital Future: Government’s 2022-25 Roadmap for Digital and Data. This set an ambitious plan that by 2025, we will deliver a transformed, more efficient digital government that provides better services for the people of the United Kingdom.
In September 2023, I published an update to the roadmap to ensure we are keeping pace with emerging trends, challenges and opportunities.
At the request of the Public Accounts Committee, I am now updating Parliament on progress made against the roadmap including progress made by individual departments. Key recent achievements include:
16 of the Top 75 services have so far reached Great, well on the way to our target of 50
29 government services are now live with GOV.UK One Login and over 3.3 million people have so far proven their identity through the new system
The Government Digital and Data profession has grown from 4% to 5.4% of total Civil Service headcount, close to our target of 6%, bringing in the key skills we need
The Generative AI Framework for Government has been published, to provide detailed guidance, resources and tools for the safe and secure usage of generative AI
There is much work still to be done, but I remain confident that under this Government’s plan we are on course to meet the commitments set out in the roadmap by 2025.
We will be depositing a full copy of ‘Transforming for a Digital Future: government's 2022 to 25 roadmap for digital and data, February 2024 progress update’ in the Libraries of both Houses.
The cabinet is the group of twenty or so (and no more than 22) senior government ministers who are responsible for running the departments of state and deciding government policy.
It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
However, during periods of national emergency, or when no single party gains a large enough majority to govern alone, coalition governments have been formed with cabinets containing members from more than one political party.
War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
From time to time the prime minister will reorganise the cabinet in order to bring in new members, or to move existing members around. This reorganisation is known as a cabinet re-shuffle.
The cabinet normally meets once a week in the cabinet room at Downing Street.
