Recommendation 17

We therefore asked how DSIT intended to resolve the issues surrounding legacy digital systems. DSIT told us that the challenges of the legacy environment required many skills to resolve, not just digital skills, many of which were “very scarce”. It explained that resolving legacy issues was necessary in its own right, but was also needed to create the capability and capacity to be able to focus on the challenges that cutting–edge and next–generation technologies present.25 DSIT told us that the challenge was both to “bring people up to an acceptable standard” and “rapidly move towards” being “able to deliver the next generation of programmes”.26