FCDO signs consultancy to £6.5m deal to boost cyber-resilience
Department retains firm on two-year deal
Newham picks former Microsoft and HSBC exec for new digital leadership post
London borough creates tech-centric assistant CEO role to drive service transformation
Appointments watchdog warns former digital secretary Dorries over TV gig
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ICO reprimands Home Office after anti-terror documents left at London venue
Department is censured for the second time in 10 days after probe reveals it took seven months to notify watchdog of breach
Scottish Parliament digital service to track online threats to members
Holyrood seeks to appoint security analyst to help create tool that will scan social networks
UK and US close to agreement for ‘free flow of personal data’ across Atlantic
Senior officials from Whitehall and Washington to have annual meeting to discuss tech and data collaboration
Whitehall job cuts: Truss to drop Johnson’s timetable in favour of efficiency-based ‘hybrid model’
Reports claim new PM and her cabinet could reinstate Fast Stream and pursue savings through efficiencies and natural churn
GDS to offer departments new GOV.UK Forms design platform
Online Redundancy Payments service is the first to be built using tool, which aims to tackle the difficulties caused by the thousands of services that rely on PDFs
Cabinet Office seeks CISO and cyber defence head
Central department recruits for senior IT security-focused positions
Regulators look to synthetic data to tackle financial fraud
Watchdogs experiment with use of artificial information to tackle fraud in which people are tricked into voluntarily sending money
Proposed law tweak advises police that cloud firms should not be served warrants for customer data
Home Office is now scrutinising feedback garnered during consultation on planned changes
Foreign Office seeks £120k technology leader
Department recruits for CTO to ‘build trust at the highest levels in the potential of technology’
Truss: ‘There are some circumstances where working from home makes sense’
PM says she will not impose ‘blanket rule’ on government officials
Mental health: NHS looks to digital and data to close ‘historic treatment gap’
Supplier sought for £400k programme to explore possibilities for use of tech and information sharing
Top tech execs join civil service recruitment watchdog
Newly announced appointees to the Civil Service Commission bring with them significant experience of tech industry
Government cuts thresholds to electronically tag thousands more ‘neighbourhood criminals’
Those who have been given sentences of only 90 days will now be monitored via GPS
NHS signs £400k deal to clear backlog of online content reviews
Online information on health conditions and treatments is supposed to be reviewed every three years
UK 5G networks: Ministers ‘taking time to consider all representations – including from Huawei’
Minister claims government has already had ‘a number of follow-up conversations’ with vendors and is mulling final decision
UK places fifth in global ranking of government service design
Report recognises online accessibility but stresses need for unified login service
Edinburgh to train tram drivers using custom VR simulator
New line to benefit from state-of-the-art system
Information commissioner: ‘I want us to be for all of society – not just those with the resources to access data protection’
Nine months into his post as the UK’s data watchdog, John Edwards tells PublicTechnology that he wants to reach all parts of the citizenry
‘Catalyst for improvements’ – cuts offer opportunity to drive transformation, MoD chief says
Permanent secretary writes to MPs to outline ministry’s intention to promote automation and shared services
Government taps Rightmove for parking data in £25k deal
Department for Transport signs contract with online property firm
Departments asked to set out additional savings – alongside growth plans
Agencies will be tasked with both identifying efficiencies and ways in which they can support chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ambitions to increase GDP