“The post of a dedicated technology minister is gone.”
DSIT is dismantled and its work split across the Cabinet Office, BIST, and DCMS. The Government Digital Service is moving for the third time in two years. Legacy systems and vendor contracts now sit in a different department from the AI mission that depends on fixing them. Every supplier negotiating with the UK government just got a better hand, because there is no longer one person on the other side of the table.