Novel and Noble were Enemies of Olde too, but such is Progress
"The Public Accounts Committee has long maintained that technology can transform the way government delivers public services. Without a more strategic approach from the center, and a sourcing strategy that is fit for purpose for the digital age, the government risks wasting more money and squandering the opportunity to modernize the public sector."
Those two short sentences reveal the fundamental essence of the continued guaranteed serial failure which will blight governments, both home and away, friendly and hostile, as technology marches on to transform everything.
Centralised ministerial government personnel tasked with ensuring maintenance and retention of established historical command and control protocols/levers/taxing measures are a crooked fit in a new digital age which has leading prime technology and technologists recognising and able to advertise and present wasteful squandering applications/projects/programs just as soon as government sources unfit as free agents of radical change for a brave new universatile digital age venture forth into the public domain with announcements of such proposals as may primarily be designed to reinforce the status quo
You may like to consider that now it is best to accept that technology is into transforming public services which deliver government rather than government delivering public services.