Key facts

£150m

Government Digital Service (GDS) budget for 2016-17

£1.3bn

reported savings from spending controls since 2011

57%

proportion of GDS budget over the next four years allocated to developing platforms

£455 million

funding for GDS agreed in the 2015 Spending Review for the period April 2016 to March 2020

25

digital exemplars identified in 2012

12

digital exemplars assessed by GDS in March 2015 as demonstrating positive net present value (of 22 where data were available)

1%

share of reported savings from spending controls for applications below £1 million

3,000

civil servants to be trained through the digital academy each year