Smarter delivery of public services

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 6 May 2025 Closed: 15 Dec 2025 Parliament page
The day-to-day running costs of public services sit at around £400bn in spending by central government departments. The Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the public face of the civil service, and has 250,000 members providing most of these services to customers, from issuing passports and visas to operating courts and … Read more
17 Recommendations
12 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
1 Event
Activity timeline 4 events
14 Jul
2025
14 Jul
2025
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Grimond Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
Julie Taylor · Department for Work and Pensions Paul Morrison · Mitie Care and Custody Sir Peter Schofield KCB · Department for Work and Pensions Tom Greig · Home Office
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
21 Conclusion Not Addressed
48th Report - Smarter delivery of …
Operational Delivery Profession demonstrates progress in building data capabilities and monitoring tools.
We heard about the ODP’s progress in building its data expertise, gathering baseline data and creating data dashboards for particular programmes. The ODP also described how a new maturity matrix will help it measure the influence it is having within … Read more
Government Response
The ODP will carefully measure the impact of all ODP products and services, work with cross-government partners and consider academic sources in identifying measures, consider a range of measures and indicators including cost avoidance, and develop common methodologies to measure operational delivery outcomes by September 2026.
HM Treasury
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Government Response AI assessment · 28 of 17 classified

Total 17 recs + 12 conclusions