Consultation reveals widespread opposition to proposed data-sharing laws for government login system
Overwhelming majority of respondents voice disapproval but government will press on with plans to bring forward legislation
Scottish Government-backed 5G network underpins global coronation broadcasts
Technology was used by BBC and 20 other international broadcasters
UK aid watchdog reveals difficulties caused by FCDO’s ‘dysfunctional’ IT systems
ICAI annual report says it has been stymied in its ability to recruit people or pay contractors...
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Government urged to update product safety standards for internet age
Parliamentary committee laments pace of progress so far in changing rules
HMRC offers £120k for shared services tech chief
Department seeks senior leader with SAP expertise
Public-health agency to continue using mobile-network data to track population movement
UKHSA signs deals with BT and O2 to provide insights into ‘behavioural changes post-pandemic’
Glasgow college looks to recruit students via TikTok
Institution creates video-based ‘ProspectToks’ – just weeks after social app was banned from all Scottish Government devices
One Login: Government will ‘review options’ for alternative means of proving identity, minister says
Alex Burghart reiterates commitment to offer options beyond passports and driving licences – potentially including the likes of disabled bus passes
NCSC brought in to help protect Eurovision as cyberattack cited as organisers’ biggest concern
Recent reports have claimed that senior government officials are worried about attacks from pro-Russian actors
‘Complete overhaul of Defra IT needed to ensure safe food and water’ – PAC
Department’s creaking tech infrastructure is ‘at constant risk of failure or cyberattack’, committee finds
Home Office signs £72m deal to develop and support all department’s apps
Atos wins three-year contract to assist with Shared Application Service
Prescriptions issued via NHS app hit 500,000 a week
Use of technology to order medication has risen sixfold since the beginning of FY22
Emergency Services Network delivery date set to 2029
Troubled programme began work in 2015 and is now expected to complete a full decade behind original schedule
Only two firms bid for £5m deal to support Emergency Alerts
Minister reveals small number of interested parties in deal to deliver, design and support nationwide service
Whitehall shared-services implementation requires funding and focus, MPs warn
Public Accounts Committee warns that lack of support could imperil delivery
Cabinet Office to create online register of senior officials’ second jobs
Update to guidance sets out detailed requirements for agencies to disclose SCS members’ outside employment, which will be collated by central department
HMRC proposes expansion of powers for collecting data and accessing third-party IT systems
Consultation opened over potential legislative changes that would enable tax agency to access cloud storage facilities
‘Very beneficial – or very dangerous’: MPs warn of urgent need for AI regulation
Conservative and Labour MPs call for more focus from the top of government
Defra taps £40k consultancy to create crisis-response plan
Department seeks new business continuity templates and definitions for issues including strikes, cyberattacks and UK-wide power cuts
Government begins £75m 4G upgrade across rural Scotland
First on 120 new masts being rolled out to connect ‘not spots’ has been installed in Lockerbie
UK has potential to be cyber ‘world leader’, report finds
Think tank study praise ‘whole-of-society approach’ to policy but encourages development of specialist workforce
Cabinet Office invests in ‘honeypot’ cyber traps to help protect network
Department invests in technology from specialist start-up
Government full FoI responses fall below 40% for first time
Treasury, Defra, Foreign Office, DLUHC and Cabinet Office each provided all requested information to no more than a quarter of inquiries
DWP to implement ‘virtual agents’ for UC queries as part of transformation programme
Department reveals rollout of automated systems in wide-scale telephony upgrade