Parliament has been warned that digital infrastructure needed to support Universal Credit will not be “fully operational” for another five years as the Department for Work and Pensions battles to […]...
Read More
UK government hails increased Oracle investment in UK datacentre
One of the UK government’s top technology chiefs has welcomed news that Oracle is to increase cloud services hosted at its Slough datacentre to its public sector customers....
Read More
EU and US reach initial agreement over new Privacy Shield
The EU and US have reached a deal to replace regulations covering how data from European Union countries is processed by US organisations....
Read More
Martha Lane Fox calls for radical public service reform
The government’s former digital tsar Martha Lane Fox has called for a ‘reinvention’ of public services for the digital age....
Read More
Blackpool launches £8m highways data framework
Blackpool Borough Council is launching a framework – open to all English and Welsh councils – for a system to handle roads-related data....
Read More
ICT issues ‘contributed to Sheffield BIS office closure’
Labour has accused business secretary Sajid Javid of showing a “lack of empathy” for civil servants who face the prospect of redundancy when the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills shuts its Sheffield office....
Read More