The previous Committee recommended in September 2023 that all Departments should appoint at least one non-executive director with relevant digital, data and technology transformation expertise to their Board.22 This recommendation is reflected in the Government’s new Roadmap for modern digital government, which sets an expectation that by December 2026 “Central and local government will be expected to have a digital leader on their executive committee and a digital non- executive director on their board.”23 DSIT told us that the ‘big digital delivery departments’, for the most part, already have digital officers at senior levels in their executive team and on their non-executive boards, but that this is not the case across all government bodies.24