Automation, AI and end-user analytics: addressing Spending Review 2025

The UK Government’s Spending Review 2025 (SR25) sets out a clear expectation: by the 2028–29 fiscal year, departments must deliver substantial efficiency gains, productivity, and operate with greater financial discipline. Against a backdrop of fiscal constraint, rising demand for public services, digital transformation ambitions, and regulatory complexity, departments are required to deliver multi-year efficiency savings across administrative budgets, improve productivity in frontline and back-office functions, reduce duplication and siloed operations, strengthen financial controls, compliance and reporting, modernise legacy systems and reduce technical debt, and to improve data quality, governance, and transparency. Above all, SR25 signals a shift from incremental cost-cutting to structural productivity reform, demanding smarter use of technology, analytics and AI.

techUK member, Alteryx, explores how government departments can quickly realise and maintain efficiencies that meet and exceed the needs of SR25 in this white paper.