Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what technology platforms and services the Government plans to develop as part of the (a) Government as a Platform and (b) Common Technology Services strategy to support the digital transformation of public services; and if he will make a statement.

The Government Digital Service will continue to act as the digital centre for government, supporting departments as they conduct their business transformation.They have already created platforms to solve common problems faced across government such as GOV.UK, the Digital Marketplace and GOV.UKVerify. In addition they are doing this by establishing Common Technology Services for civil servants - this will deliver new, flexible, common technology, opening up government contracts to more suppliers - saving time and money.

They are also creatinga payments platform for people to pay government the same way and a platform for digital communications making it easier to be able to message government, track the status of their registrations and applications and receive notifications.