Gov digitisation plans happening too slowly, say IfG policy wonks. Hear that, GDS?

"It reached that conclusion after conducting 30 interviews with senior digital and policy officials across Whitehall and the public sector"

They could have saved themselves the effort and just checked this link https://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=gds

> departments resent interference and resist new ways of working

Of course they do. And kids hate school and exams. But departments will never produce decent digital services if they aren't ushered in the right direction somehow. GDS has done more good for them than anything previously.

How many of those 50 million are actually live accounts? When the Gov Gateway was first launched I created an account (I can't remember why, I think it was to do with car tax). Apply for a passport? Can't remember the password? You can't recover it, they'll advise creating a new one. Recently I created another (I'm not very good with passwords I hardly use), so created it through Verify, which works very well until I had to submit a tax return and sound that part of gov.uk only works with a Gov Gateway ID and you guessed I had to create another ID. (It doesn't seem possible to get the details on the account that was created through Verify).

Even the government website treats the gateway ID as a disposable item.

If they had smarts the government could begin supplying digital certs. Imagine, a government provided certificate that you can use to secure all your digital life. A lot of politicians would wet themselves at that idea!