We asked the Department what it was doing to mitigate this risk. It told us that it was concerned that the formation of the new Department from its predecessor departments had placed additional pressures on its core digital team and that the digital team was reviewing its priorities. The Department plans to assess whether it needs to contract in additional digital support for the transformation programme and whether it will need to delay the programme.32 It said that contracting in digital su...

We asked the Department what it was doing to mitigate this risk. It told us that it was concerned that the formation of the new Department from its predecessor departments had placed additional pressures on its core digital team and that the digital team was reviewing its priorities. The Department plans to assess whether it needs to contract in additional digital support for the transformation programme and whether it will need to delay the programme.32 It said that contracting in digital support was challenging as there was a ‘small pool’ of candidates to hire from and candidates needed security clearance.33 The Department subsequently wrot Type: conclusion | Number: 14 | Response status: accepted Government response: 3.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: March 2024 3.2 As the Committee recognises, digital capacity across government is stretched. Capacity is constrained by the department’s ability to recruit the right calibre of