Recommendation 9

The National Audit Office (NAO) reported that the Cabinet Office’s markets, sourcing and suppliers team were in the early stages of exploring how departments map their supply chains, and whether a similar approach could be taken for public service supply chains.22 The Cabinet Office spoke about the example of UKCloud, which provided secure cloud data services to several government departments and went into liquidation in 2022.23 It explained how this was a “very difficult-to-spot problem” because it was “four tiers down” and it would be very costly and difficult to maintain a database that mapped “other subcontractors to people way down our supply chain”.24 Retaining corporate knowledge