Mr. David Moloney:

The key is the importance of data and digitalisation in driving forward public services into the future, in particular the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, OGCIO. It has a build-to-share service that is increasingly being supplied to Departments throughout Government. The resources that that attracts are not just from the Department's own Vote but from other Votes. We felt it would be more efficient and more transparent to pull those resources into a single Vote to demonstrate the impact and breadth that the OGCIO was having and to rationalise expenditure throughout the Civil Service ICT. My colleague Mary O'Donohue is from the OGCIO and can explain further what the Vote entails and what activities are there.