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The Government Digital Service is a unit of the Government of the United Kingdom's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, tasked with transforming the provision of online public services.

It was formed in April 2011 by David Cameron's Conservative government to implement the "Digital by Default" strategy proposed by a report produced for the Cabinet Office in 2010 called Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution. It is overseen by the Public Expenditure Executive (Efficiency & Reform). GDS is primarily based in the Whitechapel Building, London.

As of August 2025, the organisation is led by the Government Chief Digital Officer, Joanna Davinson, who was previously Government Chief Digital Officer at the Central Digital and Data Officer, and Chief Digital Information Officer at the Home Office before that.

Originally part of the Cabinet Office since inception, in July 2024, it was announced by the Starmer ministry that the GDS would be moving to become part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. In January 2025 DSIT announced that a number of organisations, including the GDS, would be merged into one organisation, which would be known as the Government Digital Service.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service

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