Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 20
20
Not Addressed
Government has made minimal progress on cross-departmental data challenges in the last decade.
Conclusion
Government recognises that the scale of the challenge on data is also enormous. It hopes that its data maturity framework will help address data maturity challenges across government. However, the committee has taken evidence many times on the challenges on data yet government has made little dent in addressing the issues in the last decade.48 One of the challenges to joining up citizen data is that it is not seen as a priority for one department to do work to benefit another department when compared to their own pressing priorities.49
Government Response Summary
The government responded by quoting an existing 'commitment 3' regarding departments working to make essential shared data assets available through APIs and platforms. This does not directly address the committee's specific concerns about historical lack of progress or departmental prioritisation.
Government Response
Not Addressed
HM Government
Not Addressed
commitment 3 states that all departments will work to make all ‘essential shared’ data assets available and in use across government through trusted application programming interfaces (APIs) and platforms such as Government Data Exchange (GDX) and the Integrated Data Service (IDS)