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Committee Material Published 9 May 2025 ↗ View on Parliament

We challenged the Cabinet Office on whether its plans were realistic. The Cabinet Office told us it had accepted the NAO’s recommendation that it needed a cross–Government implementation plan and a stronger monitoring and evaluation framework.75 It said these would be ready in the summer of 2025, after the Spending Review concluded.76 We asked the Cabinet Office how it knew which were the right issues to focus on if it lacked oversight of departments’ activities. The Cabinet Office clarified ...

We challenged the Cabinet Office on whether its plans were realistic. The Cabinet Office told us it had accepted the NAO’s recommendation that it needed a cross–Government implementation plan and a stronger monitoring and evaluation framework.75 It said these would be ready in the summer of 2025, after the Spending Review concluded.76 We asked the Cabinet Office how it knew which were the right issues to focus on if it lacked oversight of departments’ activities. The Cabinet Office clarified that it was working closely with departments, including through GovAssure and the GC3, which has helped it better understand and measure department’s ris Type: conclusion | Number: 34 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 6.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: Winter 2025 6.2 Work is underway to define a future Target Operating Model for Cyber and Digital Resilience, which will set out how government and the public sector should