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Assessing the UK’s Government Digital Service • The Register

Assessing the UK’s Government Digital Service • The Register

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the collapse of the digital interface of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) IT system... supposed to be one of its key exemplars for GDS in showcasing its "agile" approach to delivering digital technology... the system will be 40 per cent over budget at £215m and has led to disallowance penalties to the EU of up to £180m per year due to mis-payments ...

autopsy of the project described deep rifts between GDS and the Rural Payments Agency, with their respective leaders displaying "deeply dysfunctional" and "childlike" behaviour. One MP described the role of GDS as having "all the power and none of the responsibility"....

The extent to which its 25 "exemplar" services, of which CAP was one, have achieved real digital transformation remains highly questionable... the National Audit Office is of the opinion that there is as yet little evidence of cost savings due to digital transformation.

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