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Government’s digital transformation project has saved £210m to date, says Cabinet Office's Mike Bracken

on Nov 20, 2014 | 0 comments

By Jennifer Faull

The government has saved £210m directly from its digital transformation project, which kicked off 18 months ago, according to Mike Bracken, executive director, Government Digital Services (GDS) at the Cabinet Office.

Bracken discussed the two-year project – which the GDS spearheads based on recommendations made by Baroness Martha Lane-Fox – at the Financial Time’s Innovate conference in London today (20 November).

He outlined where the platform has been streamlined – a process which saw 40 per cent of the original website’s content scrapped – and pointed to a number of historically paper-based services which have now gone digital.

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Source: The Drum