Despite the urgency and ambition of its digital strategy, the Department does not yet have a delivery plan to measure and track progress. The Department’s digital strategy sets out how it wants to share and exploit data effectively for information advantage and develop a skilled and empowered digital function by 2025. It will be difficult for the Department to achieve this given the scale of activity across more than 90 digital projects in its portfolio, its large legacy IT estate, and wide- ...

Despite the urgency and ambition of its digital strategy, the Department does not yet have a delivery plan to measure and track progress. The Department’s digital strategy sets out how it wants to share and exploit data effectively for information advantage and develop a skilled and empowered digital function by 2025. It will be difficult for the Department to achieve this given the scale of activity across more than 90 digital projects in its portfolio, its large legacy IT estate, and wide- ranging specialist skills shortages. The National Audit Office (NAO) report that the Department’s digital strategy is consistent with good practice, but Type: conclusion | Number: 2 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. integrated delivery plan. This will use specific, tools-based metrics and measures that build on existing, robust portfolio management and transformation reporting in place for each existing digital transformati