Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 18 December 2012.
Chuka Umunna
Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) benchmarks and (b) targets he has set for the Data Strategy Board Breakthrough Fund and its delivery.
Matthew Hancock
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Skills
The Data Strategy Board (DSB) Breakthrough Fund has been established to assist open data proposals where Government Departments, Government agencies and local authorities have identified short term barriers to data release.
The target for the fund is to enable the increased release of public sector data with growth potential. This will be informed by priorities recommended by the DSB, the Open Data User Group and Sector Transparency Boards which are currently developing. The benchmark for the fund will be the current data-set available through:
www.Data.gov.uk and it will also build upon the identification of growth enhancing data sets recommended through the DSB and the Shakespeare Review, which will report in spring 2013.
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