Scottish public sector warned of increased fraud risk
Auditors uncover £15m in fraud and errors and urge vigilance against dangers posed by pandemic
EXCL: Whitehall departments reported 500 personal data breaches to ICO in FY20
Information request reveals that number of reported incidents increased slightly
HMRC appoints second perm sec to lead transformation
Customer service head Angela MacDonald is promoted
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HMRC claims issue with online tax rebate system fixed after days of problems
Citizens report inability to claim repayments and delays to those that have already claimed
Contact-tracing success rate drops
Data shows declines in the proportion of both confirmed cases and their contacts being reached by tracers
Hancock says coronavirus app will rely on self-declaration
Health secretary refuses to provide estimate for launch date of new technology
Child support and benefit tribunals to introduce video hearings
Judges to be given option of conducting video hearing
NHS data watchdog calls for ‘no surprises’ rule in use of patient info
Consultation opened on addition of eighth principle for the health system’s use of data
HMRC launches redundancy scheme as remote-working review goes on
Union criticises move to cut jobs before assessment of flexible working has been completed
Johnson claims no country yet has a ‘functional contact-tracing app’ during PMQs grilling
The prime minister overlooked 22 other nations that have launched tracking technology as Keir Starmer turned up the heat
Who stole nine antique clocks worth £50,000 from the Foreign Office?
Annual fraud data shows lost phones, online shopping sprees and some mysterious missing timepieces
DHSC to develop robotic process automation to sort correspondence
Department awards contract for nine-month contract for project to build RPA tool
Government auditors ‘generated £1bn savings’ last year
NAO annual report claims the organisation saved £16 for every £1 it spent
Test and trace scheme failing to reach more than one in four coronavirus cases
Almost 4,000 people that have test positive have not been contacted by tracers
West Yorkshire looks to build £3m cloud-based traffic-management hub
System will bring together existing databases across three areas
Home-schooling technology demands hits poorer families hardest, study finds
Research shows children learning or mobile phones and parents stretching budgets to buy new equipment
ICO flags concerns of ‘poor practices’ in police collection of smartphone data
Regulator identifies inconsistent approaches between forces and tendency to collect excessive information
Think tank encourages public sector to consider benefits of insourcing
Institute for Government report claims returning to in-house control could improve quality and deliver cost benefits
Lawfulness of government visa algorithm challenged
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants files judicial review
Defra hunts £135k operations chief to push on with transformation
Department advertises for vacant senior managerial position
NAO finds big gaps in Home Office data on illegal immigration and enforcement
Report reveals most recent estimate for people in the country illegally dates from 2005
Government scraps £12m contact-tracing app after finding it does not work on iPhones
UK will switch to Google and Apple system after discovering that less than one in 20 contacts were detected on the latter’s devices by the NHS’s own system
MPs working from home sent cyber advice mouse mats to remind them of potential password problems
Items designed to remind members to be on the lookout for phishing attacks and use a variety of passwords across different accounts
Minister says NHS contact-tracing app ‘isn’t a priority’ and may not launch until winter
Date for possible rollout of technology has been pushed back significantly