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Google Cloud and UK Government Reveal Major Push to End "Ball and Chain" Legacy Tech

UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 9 – The partnership aims to modernize public sector IT, targeting up to £45 billion in efficiency savings and training 100,000 civil servants in AI and digital skills by 2030.

  • At the Google Cloud Summit London, Google Cloud and the UK Government announced a major deal to replace legacy tech, aiming to unlock up to £45 billion in savings.
  • The UK public sector currently has 25% of systems on legacy tech, rising to 70% in some police and NHS trusts, trapped by inflexible contracts.
  • Google Cloud is training 100,000 civil servants in AI and digital skills over five years, and developing a unified cybersecurity platform, as part of efforts to modernize public sector technology.
  • Early results show Google Cloud's partnership reduces procurement fragmentation and accelerates scientific discovery across the public sector, boosting efficiency and innovation.
  • In the long term, Prime Minister Starmer aims for 1 in 10 civil servants to be tech experts and explores quantum computing for public services by 2030.
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Government makes deal with Google to provide free tech for UK public services

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said he is determined to ‘break free’ from the ‘ball-and-chain’ technology currently used in many systems.

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