DSIT’s A blueprint for modern digital government also sets out a series of priority reforms. These include commitments to assess the optimum employment models and the competitiveness of the overall package for digital and data staff. To strengthen digital leadership, the blueprint also sets out plans to require all public sector organisations to have a digital leader on their executive committee and a digital non–executive director on their board by 2026.39 DSIT told us that chief digital information officers are “not sufficiently represented at the executive committee level”.40 34 UAIG0006, UAIG0010, UAIG0011, UAIG0018, UAIG0026, UAIG0028, UAIG0029 35 Committee of Public Accounts, Digital transformation in government: addressing the barriers to efficiency, Seventieth Report of Session 2022–23, HC 1229, 13 September 2023; Committee of Public Accounts, Challenges in implementing digital change, Thirtieth Report of Session 2021–22, HC 637, 10 December 2021 36 Q 26 37 Q 26 38 Q 25 39 DSIT, A blueprint for modern digital government, January 2025, p 24 40 Q 27 14 2 Supporting widespread adoption in the public sector Learning from AI pilots and scaling–up