While Westminster was still digesting the BritCard cancellation, Andy Burnham also abolished the department that was supposed to build it. Jeff J Mitchell / Getty ImagesThe Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is gone, its functions split three ways across Whitehall, and AI policy has landed in the prime minister's own office. Science policy, UK Research and Innovation and the Sovereign AI Fund go to Jonathan Reynolds' new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. The Government Digital Service (GDS), cyber security, digital skills and telecoms go back to a renamed culture ministry that once again has "Digital" in its title. Computer Weekly's editors asked what leverage a culture ministry has over Whitehall departments that have dodged digital transformation for years.