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At the core of a new report, the Commission argues that there is no time to lose in re-establishing the UK’s former position as a world leader in digital government. As the UK prepares for the post-Brexit, post-Covid-19 world, implementing these recommendations will be vital if the Government is to address the twin challenges of improving public services, and improving the UK’s standing in a competitive world where countries like China and Russia use digital innovation to gain comparative advantage.
The Commission for Smart Government today publishes a report diagnosing serious dysfunctionality in Whitehall, warning that the British machinery of government is “no longer world class”. The discussion paper, entitled “What’s gone wrong with Whitehall?”, argues that weaknesses in the system and structures of government undermine strategic coherence and leave it unable to deliver effective change.
A powerful group of business leaders and former senior public officials today calls for a fundamental overhaul of the machinery of government to improve delivery and protect public services in the wake of the Covid epidemic. The Commission for Smart Government warns that “every organisation in the country is urgently considering how to adapt and survive in the new world which the virus is shaping, and government can’t be exempt.”
A high-level group of leaders from politics, public service and business has today called on the Government to drive a far more ambitious programme of Whitehall reform, warning that without transformative change its policy goals will not be met.