Ben Shave (@ben-shave.bsky.social)

First output from the SIT Committee scrutiny of DSIT's new digital centre that I'm working on. We wrote to the department asking how they arrived at an estimate of £45bn/year saving from the use of technology in the public sector. Here's what they sent back: committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...

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Government shares calculation for £45 billion annual savings from digitisation of public sector - Committees - UK Parliament The government has provided the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee with a breakdown of how it calculated the estimated figure of £45 billion in annual savings that could be reached thr... https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/135/science-innovation-and-technology-committee/news/206535/government-shares-calculation-for-45-billion-annual-savings-from-digitisation-of-public-sector/