Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps his Department is taking to ensure its services are available online; and if he will make a statement.

DECC’s digital strategy was published in December 2012 and this sets out the proposals for DECC to move towards the digital by default agenda. A Digital Leader has been appointed with responsibility to promote the take up of digital services across the department. As a relatively new Department many of the services managed by the Department already include a digital element.

A series of activities have been undertaken which:

• Develop and implement the DECC Digital Strategy;
• Assess new and redesigned services against the Digital Service Design Manual published by the Government Digital Service;
• Digital services are embedded into other initiatives such as Consumer First and Open Policy Making; and
• Build the skills and capabilities in the department needed to support the digital agenda.