Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the data used by his Department's transaction explorer to analyse the cost of delivering Government services has been updated since the introduction of the explorer; and whether he plans to update this data in the next two years.

The Transactions Explorer was merged into the Performance Platform in 2015. The data on costs was collected quarterly from 2012 until 2018. The Performance Platform was decommissioned in 2021. Cost per transaction remains a mandatory performance indicator in the Digital Service Standard so digital services must publish data on it, typically via Data.gov.uk.

For the Top 75 government services identified in Transforming for a Digital Future, the cross-government digital and data strategy for 2022-2025 published in June 2022, we have developed the new performance framework for services. This also includes cost per transaction metrics and the framework will be published shortly following engagement with the departments involved.