3.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: end of December 2022 3.2 Wholesale digital transformation in departments will require significant, systemic change in government to remove institutional barriers and create the conditions for successful investment and delivery. CDDO is working with HM Treasury, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), and colleagues across government to drive this change, by ensuring the funding, business and governance models are in place to support and incentivise modern, efficient digital product-centric, services and transformation. These systemic reforms will create a foundation and environment which facilitates investment in technologies, such as automation, which can be developed and utilised to enable both incremental and wholesale digital transformation to be realised. The Automation Blueprints, developed by the Government Automation Taskforce (GAT) in 2020, identified up to £1.4 billion of potential automation-related departmental opportunities across government over three years. GAT has now been incorporated into CDDO, and CDDO is working to support departments to prioritise these automation and transformation opportunities. 3.3 CDDO proposes to work with partners across government to transform critical services in order to drive excellence in user experience and efficient processes that reduce costs. It will work up an initial list of prioritised public services and civil servant journeys requiring transformation. CDDO and GDS will then offer targeted interventions depending on the type and scale of improvements needed. This might include identifying opportunities for automation, recommending and unblocking improvements and supporting funding of high value opportunities.