Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 10
75th Report - Government use of data analytics on error and fraud
Published 27 Mar 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Government use of data analytics on error and fraud All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The previous Committee recommended in September 2023 that all Departments should appoint at least one non-executive director with relevant digital, data and technology transformation expertise to their Board.22 This recommendation is reflected in the Government’s new Roadmap for modern digital government, which sets an expectation that by December 2026 “Central and local government will be expected to have a digital leader on their executive committee and a digital non- executive director on their board.”23 DSIT told us that the ‘big digital delivery departments’, for the most part, already have digital officers at senior levels in their executive team and on their non-executive boards, but that this is not the case across all government bodies.24
From: Public Accounts Committee, 75th Report - Government use of data analytics on error and fraud (HC 891), 27 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 1 June 2026 (deadline 27 May 2026).