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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 1891, tabled on 14 November 2023

Question

Jonathan Ashworth
Labour
Leicester South
Commons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on the (a) development and (b) implementation of the GOV.UK One Login.

Answer

Alex Burghart
Conservative
Brentwood and Ongar
Commons

Answered on

20 November 2023

The GOV.UK One Login programme’s total budget for the three years from 2022/23 to 2024/25 is £305.4 million. Of this, the programme is forecasting expenditure of £132.7m on the development and roll out of the system by the end of the current financial year.

Over 1.5 million users have successfully used GOV.UK One Login to access services. The programme will help save over £700 million over the next three years, as well as people’s time and effort.

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