A partnership between the government and Google Cloud will help public services harness technology, upskill civil servants, and better protect the government against cyberattacks.

Google Cloud will agree to offer tech support to help modernise government services and replace old technology to create a state better equipped to deliver the Plan for Change, and target the £45 billion technology could unlock in efficiency savings.

Google DeepMind will collaborate with technical experts in government to support them in deploying and disturbing new emerging technologies, which drive efficiencies across the public sector, such as accelerating scientific discovery.

Alongside the partnership, Google Cloud will aim to upskill up to 10,000 civil servants in latest tech by 2030, in a bid to meet the prime minster’s target to have one in ten officials as tech experts in order to speed up the delivery of the government’s plans.

Set to announce this today (9th July 2025) at Google Cloud’s Summit London, technology secretary Peter Kyle will say: “Without deals like this in place, we had hundreds of public sector organisations going it alone in negotiations with big tech companies—leaving them without the market clout they need to get the best deal.

“When I negotiate with tech companies, I am negotiating on behalf of the British taxpayer.

“Britain will be using more technology, in more areas and more than ever before. So my message to the big technology companies is clear: bring us your best ideas, your best tech, and your best price.”