July 2025

2 Minutes

Business and industry News

CCS to develop ‘new digital operating model’

Sam Trendall July 28, 2025

Whitehall procurement agency’s annual accounts reveal that business case for tech transformation initiative was signed off nine months ago, with work on initial assessments and recruitment of staff now begun […]...

4 Minutes

Education and skills News

Government commits £168m to data-linking work

Jim Dunton July 28, 2025

Non-departmental body is to extend a major project which has supported the use of data to better understand issues including reoffending, education outcomes, and the impact of alcohol pricing measures […]...

4 Minutes

Government and politics News

DWP ramps up GDS collaboration on One Login and new government digital strategy

Sam Trendall July 25, 2025

Department’s annual accounts cite examples of beneficial cooperation on implementation of new tools, in addition to work to support the creation of an updated Whitehall vision for AI and tech […]...

3 Minutes

Education and skills News

Government comms unit has not assessed X since 2023 or Bluesky at all

Sam Trendall July 25, 2025

Since officials from the GCS unit last reviewed the use of the former Twitter, other public bodies have quit the platform, while ministers have faced a growing number of questions […]...

2 Minutes

Defence and Security News

MoD brings in £4m consultants for ‘careful guidance’ on innovation projects

Sam Trendall July 25, 2025

Consultancy offering cyber and digital support to public sector clients has been picked for a deal of nearly two years covering the provision of ‘subject matter experts’ for defence projects […]...

3 Minutes

News Public order, justice and rights

HMCTS cites importance of video in dealing with storms and civil unrest

Sam Trendall July 24, 2025

In its annual financial statements and performance update, the agency reveals that the ability to conduct procedures remotely, both in courts and other locations, helped overcome big challenges in FY25 […]...

2 Minutes

News Science, technology and research

Trade department experiments with LLMs in ‘self-hosted, secure environment’

Sam Trendall July 24, 2025

Having found that officials wished to deploy powerful AI tools to help analyse and derive information from documents, DBT has striven to create internal infrastructure allowing them to do so […]...

13 Minutes

Economics and finance Features

HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

Sam Trendall July 23, 2025

PublicTechnology explores the tax agency’s ambitious vision for the coming years, including ‘automating tax where possible’, investing in new analytics technology to help combat fraud, and upgrading ageing IT infrastructure […]...

4 Minutes

Government and politics News

Government signs collaboration agreement with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

Sam Trendall July 23, 2025

The state will work with the Silicon Valley outfit to identity potential uses of tech in public services, as well as the possibility of the firm supporting AI Growth Zones […]...

PublicTechnology

July 2025

CCS to develop ‘new digital operating model’

Government commits £168m to data-linking work

DWP ramps up GDS collaboration on One Login and new government digital strategy

Government comms unit has not assessed X since 2023 or Bluesky at all

MoD brings in £4m consultants for ‘careful guidance’ on innovation projects

HMCTS cites importance of video in dealing with storms and civil unrest

Trade department experiments with LLMs in ‘self-hosted, secure environment’

HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

Government signs collaboration agreement with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

Government risks ‘doing the wrong thing efficiently’, civil servants warn in new research

Hitachi Solutions demonstrates secure use of Microsoft tools with AWS data in major win for government cloud interoperability

Only 1% of managers call their hiring ‘very effective’ – Civica research shows why

Beyond the iron fist: What civil servants say will really cut Whitehall waste

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