Credit: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 The fiscal plan announced yesterday by chancellor Rachel Reeves reveals that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will take a key role in helping direct government’s long-term tech financing Yesterday’s budget outlined how the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will build on its new remit as the digital centre of government by taking a key role in directing tech investments via the next spending review and supporting the transformation of corporate functions across government. The new chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first budget also marked the conclusion of an initial spending review phase in which departmental funding settlements were set for the next financial year. This comes ahead of ‘phase 2’, which will encompass a full comprehensive spending review (CSR) to be concluded in the spring, in which Whitehall budgets will be allocated for at least the subsequent three years, up to 2028-29. During preparations for the previous CSR exercise in 2021, the Central Digital and Data Office worked closely with HM Treasury to help ensure the necessary levels of financial backing for departments’ key technology programmes and operations. With CDDO and its sister agencies now housed within DSIT as part of the […]
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