As confirmed in January 2025’s Blueprint for modern digital government policy paper, cross-government digital leadership now resides with DSIT.32 The blueprint included a plan to raise the status of the Government Chief Digital Officer to second permanent secretary-level. DSIT told us that it has now replaced the Government Chief Digital Officer, who was responsible for all the digital work within the GDS, with two new directors general posts. One of these is the director-general for digital ...

As confirmed in January 2025’s Blueprint for modern digital government policy paper, cross-government digital leadership now resides with DSIT.32 The blueprint included a plan to raise the status of the Government Chief Digital Officer to second permanent secretary-level. DSIT told us that it has now replaced the Government Chief Digital Officer, who was responsible for all the digital work within the GDS, with two new directors general posts. One of these is the director-general for digital products who is responsible for the various products that GDS builds and runs itself; the other is the director-general for digital transformation who is Type: conclusion | Number: 13 | Response status: response_pending