Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility
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Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios
OPINION "Where do we put digital government? You know, all those billions we spend on consultants and legacy systems?"
"Oh, that! Put it with sports and tourism. And something we're calling 'place'."
It might be a fictional conversation between a SpAd* and a mandarin**, but in reality, the outcome is more or less the same. With the arrival of Andy Burnham as UK prime minister came a shake-up of responsibilities in Whitehall, leaving responsibility for science, technology, and government tech scattered across several departments and eliminating the dedicated technology ministerial role.
Shortly after the changes were announced in July, Dame Chi Onwurah, chair of the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, wrote to the governmentasking for an explanation. The government had yet to confirm what the new roles...
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