Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.
This report sets out the lessons for government and departments to learn from the experience of implementing digital change.
Our cloud guidance for audit committees builds on our 2019 guidance. We have seen more of the public sector turn to cloud services and government spending with the major cloud providers has increased in the last five years. We have updated our guidance to reflect this and to recognise wider developments and evolution of cloud services.
This report examines the Digital Services at the Border programme to assess whether it has delivered value for money.
This report draws together our experience of the main challenges and barriers to better use of data across government.
Outlining cloud services and their use in government, this guide suggests questions to ask at planning, implementation and management stages.
An investigation into Verify, the government’s identity verification platform. It examines its performance, costs and benefits.
Transformation programmes can be highly complicated and risky. This guidance assists those overseeing them by setting out questions committees should ask during set-up, delivery and live-running phases.
Digital transformation has a mixed track record across government. It has not yet provided a level of change that will allow government to further reduce costs while still meeting people’s needs.
Protecting information while re-designing public services and introducing the technology necessary to support them is an increasingly complex challenge.
