Overview

• A government trial involving 20,000 civil servants across 12 organisations saved officials an average of 26 minutes per day and estimated 30,000 roles could be freed from routine tasks with wider AI adoption.
• Blair urged granting innovators access to NHS data to enable more precise health policy decisions and personalised patient care while reducing costs.
• He highlighted the potential for AI tutors to customise education and for merged datasets across departments to streamline services and inform better policy.
• The former prime minister criticised Whitehall’s entrenched bureaucracy as a “conspiracy for inertia” that absorbs momentum for change and stifles innovation.
• Technology Secretary Peter Kyle backed opening public data to vetted tech firms to accelerate scientific breakthroughs and commercial development