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Me too. Focusing on digital services was, and remains, one of the few things the UK government has got right in recent years, IMHO - and excelled at.

Is it anything to do with the government per se, or is it driven entirely by civil servants?

Francis Maude was the MP responsible for a lot of that. He was the only politician I ever heard talk about lean practices in software.

Yeah -- look into Francis Maude, he's broadly responsible for the current gov't focus on (good) IT practices.