Question follow-through · 21933
Electronic Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has examined the Public Interest Technology Crews established by the Mayor of New York City; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of piloting
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Culture, media and sport
- Software · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has examined the Public Interest Technology Crews established by the Mayor of New York City; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of piloting
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government is aware of international approaches to building local digital capability, including those developed in New York. The UK already has world leading in-house digital capability through Government Digital Services (GDS), including specialist t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Software
8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the answer of 8 September 2026 to question 21928, entitled Software, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of updating the Be Open and use open source guidance