Departments find it easier to secure capital funding for new developments than ongoing resource funding to maintain systems and keep them up to date.59 Moving services to cloud-based providers introduces new pricing models with an increasing emphasis on ‘pay-as-you-go’, which transfers traditional capital requirements to resource expenditure.60 Limiting resource expenditure means that departments can struggle to maintain services adequately once they have been built, and this can be a false e...

Departments find it easier to secure capital funding for new developments than ongoing resource funding to maintain systems and keep them up to date.59 Moving services to cloud-based providers introduces new pricing models with an increasing emphasis on ‘pay-as-you-go’, which transfers traditional capital requirements to resource expenditure.60 Limiting resource expenditure means that departments can struggle to maintain services adequately once they have been built, and this can be a false economy. Cuts to maintenance budgets can have a devastating impact on the ability to maintain services in the longer term and risk undoing all progress on Type: conclusion | Number: 23 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 5.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: February 2024 5.2 CDDO has an overall milestone that the barriers to digital transformation will be addressed by 2025. However, it recognises this is dependent on other par