The Transfer of Functions (Digital Government) Order 2025

This Order in Council is made under sections 1 and 2 of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975. It makes provision for the transfer of functions under the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (“the 2018 Regulations”) from the Minister for the Cabinet Office to the Secretary of State. It also makes provision for certain functions of the Minister for the Cabinet Office in Chapters 1, 3 and 4 of Part 5 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to be exercised concurrently with the Secretary of State. The Order also makes provision for property, rights and liabilities in connection with certain digital functions, or in connection with the transferred functions in the 2018 Regulations, to be transferred from the Minister for the Cabinet Office to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. Finally it makes supplementary provision in relation to those various transfers.