Inline Insights

Andy Burnham has got his feet under the desk in Downing Street, after a month and a half as prime minister. Yet one of his biggest acts so far in Number 10 occurred during his very first week. The decision to break up the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), despite the protests from the tech sector, stands out as one of the biggest tech decisions of short premiership. With the old department’s responsibilities redistributed between the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Cabinet Office, change has been the main order of business.