Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 35 of the document entitled Government Transformation Strategy, published by his Department on 9 February 2017, what progress has been made on the development of a cross-government evidence base to share inter-departmental approaches to transformation work.

The government has established a portfolio of key transformation projects which is a subset of the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and is supported by a cross-government transformation team. Research and insight on programmes in this transformation portfolio are shared across government through a Transformation Peer Group of senior civil servants and transformation practitioners.

Analysis of the projects in the transformation portfolio is shared publicly through the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s (IPA) annual report on major projects, most recently published in July 2018.

The GOV.UK Design System - was published in June this year and makes available an extensive suite of design patterns (generated by numerous departments) with which government can build well designed services.

By the end of September 2018 more departmental approaches to transformation, tools that have been developed, and insight from the portfolio will be published on GOV.UK.

Government has also developed cross-departmental service communities. These communities are focussed on developing end-to-end services as users perceive them, and they provide a space to collaborate and share approaches for continual learning and improvement.