The UK government is abolishing the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the department set up under former Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak to lead digital and technology change across the public sector. Its responsibilities are being redistributed following Science Secretary Liz Kendall's removal by new Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham, with digital transformation duties expected to pass to a reshaped Department for Culture, Media and Sport, to be renamed the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

The Government Digital Service and Central Digital and Data Office, which had moved from the Cabinet Office to DSIT after Labour took power in 2024, look set to move again to DCMS. DSIT's industry-facing role will instead go to the newly created Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, led by Jonathan Reynolds, while Kanishka Narayan becomes Minister for Artificial Intelligence across the Cabinet Office and the new department. The reshuffle comes as DSIT's "roadmap for modern digital government" has drawn criticism from a select committee for lacking a clear delivery plan, and as its Matrix shared services project, moving nine government bodies onto Workday-based systems, was rated "red" for major, potentially unresolvable problems.