Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport written question – answered at on 22 October 2019.
Jo Platt
Shadow Minister (Cabinet Office)
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department has allocated to the (a) creation and (b) implementation of the Government Data Strategy.
Nigel Adams
Minister of State
In June 2018 the Government announced the launch of a National Data Strategy. The team of 13 has been allocated £349,000 for delivery of the strategy and its associated research programme and consultation. There is no budget allocated for the implementation of the strategy. This will be reviewed once the strategy is agreed.
The figures below provide the funding to date.
FY 18/19: £38,000
FY 19/20: £312,000
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