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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is very sad news. Thoughts with those affected.

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 17/07/2025

Pogačar's time up Hautacam was 35m21s according to FranceTV. Slower than Bjarne Riis's record of 34m41s from 1996

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John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

How exactly is the £500m fund for R&D on Labour govt's five missions going to work? Patrick Vallance starts to form some answers. By @francesjones.bsky.social www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Patrick Vallance trails first details of R&D missions programme - Research Professional News

Scheme will “stimulate a different way of thinking about R&D” in government, says science minister

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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

First output from the SIT Committee scrutiny of DSIT's new digital centre that I'm working on. We wrote to the department asking how they arrived at an estimate of £45bn/year saving from the use of technology in the public sector. Here's what they sent back: committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...

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Government shares calculation for £45 billion annual savings from digitisation of public sector - Committees - UK Parliament

The government has provided the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee with a breakdown of how it calculated the estimated figure of £45 billion in annual savings that could be reached thr...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22/04/2025

probably even starker for people even a smidge older than me but I do think a lot about how much the world has changed on that front in my lifetime, isn't it mad that I remember smoking in bars and at gigs, and being able to smoke in all flats/houses by default

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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@mollygreeves.bsky.social Hi Molly - could you follow me so I can send you a DM? Thanks a lot!

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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is the correct take ✅

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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Re-upping this as the deadline to submit is in a week. Contribute to scrutiny of DSIT’s work to establish the new Government Digital Service.

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Ben Shave @ben-shave.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New platform, new piece of work for the next few months. I'm leading on the Science, Innovation & Technology select committee's inquiry looking at DSIT's new digital centre of government. If you have thoughts please submit them and/or get in touch! committees.parliament.uk/work/8903/di...

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Digital centre of government - Committees - UK Parliament

Following the general election, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced plans to become the “digital centre of government”. It was also confirmed that the Government Dig...

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