The Burnham Tech Reset: DSIT Falls, AI Goes to Cabinet, and £1bn Flows to Startups

Andy Burnham's government has dismantled the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) — just one week into the new administration — redistributing its functions across four departments. AI policy now sits squarely in the Cabinet Office under Minister for AI Kanishka Narayan, who attends Cabinet at minister of state level. Digital transformation and online harms move to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, while a new **Department for Business,...