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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by iso1210 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:20PM (#25647892)
The UK civil service is great - although it strikes me as someone really good was given the power and budget to make it happen.

The UK government however...

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Re:Busiest hour ever in the history of Gov.uk 17M page reque... by gm3dmo on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:50PM (#25652330)
You are spot on there. Here is Tom Loosemore (one of the originators of the Government Digital Service) explaining how it came to be:

https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...

Unfortunately the spend control that GDS had, has been removed.

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