
GDS ramps up work to track departments’ cloud usage and costs
The specialist digital unit has put in a place two deals this year to support

HM Land Registry to enable property lawyers to use electronic signatures
Conveyancers, buyers and other service users will shortly be able to file legal documents using

ICO provides ‘most comprehensive’ guidance on document disclosure
Following various high profile incidents affecting public sector entities, the UK’s data protection regulator has

MoJ floats action plan to ‘embed’ AI across department
Proposals include using technology to link offender records, curbing jail violence by predicting likely perpetrators

Charity calls for ‘enforceable guarantee of offline alternatives’ of public services
Age UK supplies PM with a petition supporting its calls for NHS entities, local councils

Two-thirds of officials expect AI to benefit government
A new survey has found that a comfortable majority of civil servants feel upbeat about

NHS signs £80m deal to support ‘digital prevention services’
The health service has picked frequent tech partner Aire Logic to deliver a range of

Online influencers invited to Downing Street
A group of 90 creators of content for platforms including YouTube and TikTok were yesterday

Home Office works with GDS to assess possible remote English proficiency tests
The department is currently engaging with both potential tech suppliers and other branches of government

Trade department signs £3.5m deals to boost tech maturity and identify vulnerabilities
DBT has put in place two agreements with major reseller SCC intended to provide greater

DWP deploys AI to predict parents that might default on Child Maintenance
The department has trained a machine learning system on thousands of cases to identify and

HM Land Registry seeks £72m digital and data partners to deliver ‘radical, permanent changes’
The government department responsible for overseeing housebuying and administering the national register of millions of

New Companies House CEO Andy King to ‘advance change programme’
After moving from his current post in the Ministry of Defence, the incoming boss of

Age-estimating AI face scans could be ‘fully integrated’ into asylum and immigration processes next year
Ministers have revealed that, following extensive review of possible options, border operations will soon begin

G-Cloud 14 extended to October 2026 to give time to prep replacement
Documents issued by Whitehall’s procurement agency reveal that the current iteration of government’s core commercial

Scottish Government unveils National Innovation Week
Event to be held in September will convene public and private sector representatives and will

Innovation requires ‘forgiving us when we do the wrong thing when trying something new’ – DWP boss
Department’s permanent secretary Sir Peter Schofield tells committee of MPs that the pandemic cultivated bold

CCS to develop ‘new digital operating model’
Whitehall procurement agency’s annual accounts reveal that business case for tech transformation initiative was signed