Policy paper

Government Digital Strategy

This strategy sets out how government will redesign its digital services so well that people prefer to use them.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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The Government Digital Strategy sets out how government will redesign its digital services to make them so straightforward and convenient that all those who can use them prefer to do so. This strategy:

  • follows the March 2012 commitment to digital services being the default
  • has been developed collaboratively across government, as part of the
  • supported by , published in December 2012
  • has been followed up by departmental progress summaries and
  • is supported by a cross-government approach to assisted digital provision

The strategy also describes how delivering services digitally will result in savings of 拢1.7 to 拢1.8 billion each year, and commits government to the 14 actions below.

Progress with the Strategy will be reported quarterly.

The Government Digital Strategy was updated in December 2013. The first version was published in November 2012.

Updates to this page

Published 6 November 2012
Last updated 10 December 2013 show all updates
  1. Actions 15 and 16 added to Government Digital Strategy and text amended throughout to reflect this. Links added where appropriate to the Civil Services Capabilities plan, the Digital Services Framework and the Digital by Default Service Standard which have been launched since the strategy was first published.

  2. First published.

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