Westminster Hall
22 October 2026
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Chamber House of Commons
00:11 - 00:58
Speaker 1
Select Committee statement. Dame Chi Onwurah will speak on the publication of the third special report of the Science and Technology Committee. Rewiring the state, delivering digital government, government response, HC 651 for up to 10 minutes during which time no interventions may be taken. At the conclusion of the statement, I will call members to put questions on the subject of the statement and call Dame Chi Onwurah to respond to these in turn. Questions should be brief and members may only ask one very brief question.
I call Dame Chi Onwurah, chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee.
00:58 - 02:46
Speaker 2
Thank you so much, Ms. Furniss, and I'm really grateful to the Backbench Business Committee for allocating time for this statement on the Science and Technology Select Committee's report, Rewiring the State: Delivering Digital Government, and to discuss the government's response. I want to put on record my thanks to the committee clerks and specialists who have supported this complex inquiry, as well as to all those who gave evidence in person or written. Both the previous government and this one have spoken of their ambition to make the UK a truly digital state, transforming citizens' experience of the health service, the education and justice systems, indeed all public services, increasing productivity and efficiency and reducing costs. Now, I'm a tech evangelist. I believe technology should make the world work better for people, and my committee welcomes and supports the government's ambitions, but our report raised serious concerns about how achievable they are.
Now, in our report, we identified four building blocks for successful digital transformation. Money: money always matters, but we found inadequate data on digital spend prevents the government from making informed decisions or holding those responsible to account. Then people: do we have the right people and skills to deliver digital transformation and cultural change to ensure skills are valued and embedded in leadership roles? How many permanent secretaries have the digital experience required, for example? Then third, information and data security: there are serious data hygiene failures across the public sector.
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