EXCL: Digital minister says government will pass law to make smart devices safer ‘as soon as we can’
Matt Warman tells PublicTechnology event that government wants products and services to be secure ‘from the ground up’ – reducing burden on consumers and businesses
Report calls for ‘more power’ in Whitehall to be centralised
UK’s top two civil servants should be handed more responsibility as part of drive to make...
DfE laptops for home-schooling found to contain malware
Government says a ‘small number’ of machines are affected by what users say is a worm that...
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‘Hybrid working’ will become the norm, predicts civil service chief
Operations leader Alex Chisholm says that a model where civil servants work from home for part of the week is likely to become more common long beyond the coronavirus pandemic
Post Office and Fujitsu to ‘fully cooperate’ with government probe of Horizon IT scandal
Government claims it has met demands for full judge-led inquiry but critics remain unconvinced
Think tank calls on government to postpone spending review again
Treasury says suggestion that gap between reviews could be extended to six years is no more than ‘speculation’ currently
Should students be refunded for online-only courses – and who should pay?
Some students paying more than £9,000 per year for tuition believe they are being short-changed, but neither government nor universities seems eager to take responsibility for reimbursing them
Scotland proposes more virtual courts
Increased use of technology is among ‘basket of measures’ considered to clear case backlog
East Suffolk looks to smart towns
Felixstowe, Beccles and Saxmundham are to benefit from increased connectivity and data-gathering
Contact-tracing app downloads top 10 million
Government claims almost half a million businesses have printed QR-code posters
Government suppliers asked to show social value
New procurement measures introduced
Civil service graduate scheme seeks 60 budding technologists
Digital, data and technology profession has one of the biggest allowances
DCMS keeping tabs on child-safety implications of Apple updates
New versions of the vendor’s operating systems include support for DNS over HTTPS
Defra picks £46m Microsoft licensing partner
Phoenix Software picked for three-year contract
Government follows tech firms’ lead in launching autism internship scheme
Programme will recruit 18-25 year olds
Government appoints task force to help mitigate impact of Huawei ban via ‘diversification’ of telecoms market
A selection of telecoms executives and academics will help deliver a strategy to be published later this year
Contact-tracing app launches today
Major networks announce that use of program will not be taken from data allowances
GOV.UK to trial personalised accounts
Citizens will be offered the chance to create an online login
Companies House to clamp down on identity fraud with verification tools and better data
Register of companies announces reforms
Shadow minister claims government ‘addicted’ to outsourcing
Rachel Reeves criticises amount of public money spent with private firms
New GDS minister unveils vision for single sign-on
Julia Lopez wants to improve system for citizens to identify themselves
Scottish start-ups get funding boost
Public funding dedicated to help smaller firms survive pandemic
London NHS bodies team up to plan £2m digital mental-health platform for young people
Ten CCGs and trusts look to improve access to remote services
Policy on public sector use of US cloud under review as uncertainty grows over post-Brexit data transfers
GDS and NHS Digital asked to review policies after collapse of Privacy Shield agreement and ongoing lack of data adequacy status with EU