Challenges in using data across government
This report draws together our experience of the main challenges and barriers to better use of data across government.
21 Jun 2019
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.
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.
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.
This interactive publication presents the results of our survey of central government digital leaders’ views and suggests areas for further consideration.
Mistakes in the original procurement and contract management of an IT system, designed to extract data from GP practices, contributed to losses of public funds, through asset write-offs and settlements with suppliers.
The NAO has published a briefing paper on the Government’s identity assurance programme, which is aiming to create a safe and convenient way for people to access government services online.