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Defra aims to improve 12 key digital services to 'great' standard within existing budgets.
Conclusion
We asked how departments would deliver the ambitions and standards set for digitisation using their existing budgets. Defra was confident it could fulfil the commitments made in the CDDO’s Roadmap and that it would get the 12 services in the government’s top 75 to a “great” standard by 2025 by improving both their usability and their efficiency.47 It explained that it was finding ways to achieve as much as possible with the funding that it had, for example opportunities to introduce something new but to improve an existing service at the same time. It also told us that it had identified areas where it will prioritise digitising or transforming a service if it is able to release funding from its existing budget, for example by delivering another programme “better and quicker”.48
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 21 July 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document.
Source
Committee
Public Accounts Committee
Report
Fifty-First Report - Tackling Defra’s ageing digital services
10 May 2023
HC 737
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age
3.3 yrs
Report published
10 May 2023