We welcome CDDO’s efforts to establish strong cross-government co-operation and collaboration to identifying and addressing legacy IT issues. Since our December 2021 report on the Challenges in implementing digital change, CDDO has worked with all departments to establish a common methodology across departments for prioritising legacy risk. It has developed a framework to identify vulnerable legacy systems and tested it with six departments including Defra. Covering 105 digital systems across...

We welcome CDDO’s efforts to establish strong cross-government co-operation and collaboration to identifying and addressing legacy IT issues. Since our December 2021 report on the Challenges in implementing digital change, CDDO has worked with all departments to establish a common methodology across departments for prioritising legacy risk. It has developed a framework to identify vulnerable legacy systems and tested it with six departments including Defra. Covering 105 digital systems across the six departments, this has highlighted those which need immediate work. CDDO intends to use the framework with the remaining departments by the end o Type: recommendation | Number: 7 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation Recommendation implemented On 19 January 2023, CDDO updated the Committee Hearing on its progress which included establishing the legacy risk framework and rolling it out across 6 departments, assessing 105