Home Office anti-terror comms-interception unit hires £6m project managers to address ‘lack of skill set’
NCDS is currently engaged in ‘moving towards new ways of working’ to reflect legislative changes
Scottish minister warns on Westminster’s ‘hands-off’ approach to AI and requests urgent UK summit
Richard Lochhead compares technology to previous industrial revolutions and says government’s...
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology made up of 800 DCMS staffers and 935 from BEIS
Minister reveals that newly created department is still working on employee transfers
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MoJ slammed for tagging scheme that ‘wasted £98m of taxpayers’ money’
MPs criticise ministry’s unrealistic ambitions and lack of scrutiny
DVLA recruiting four senior techies to tackle legacy and help create ‘digital workplace’
Government agency opens hiring process for quartet of IT leadership posts
DWP looks to embed machine-readable laws into digital ‘Universal Credit navigator’
Department works with government lawyers and specialist tech firm to pursue ‘rules as code’ project
Integration of NHS Digital brought forward to January
Government claims merger will improve data sharing across health service
MPs to probe government property plans in light of ‘seismic shifts to working culture’
Parliamentary committee will examine strategy and implementation to date
Digital and robotics key to HMRC cuts, CEO says
Demand for headcount reductions and other savings can be achieved via use of tech in services and operations, Jim Harra tells MPs
UK and US launch joint military operation to tackle cyberthreats
Exercise seeks to identify and help combat digital attacks
Spend controls and patchy engagement hampering efforts to boost civil service commercial skills, according to Whitehall chief
Ongoing ‘competing priorities’ still get in the way of long-term work to boost buying savvy, says Alex Chisholm
Bank of England signs deal with £45m IT partner
Tech company will provide central bank with a range of hardware, software and services
Home secretary Braverman leaves post after sending official document via personal email
Use of personal accounts – which came under scrutiny during the pandemic – is a contravention of government guidelines
Users report Home Office online system providing wrong person’s immigration details
Minister admits department is ‘aware of technical issues’ in which users are presented with someone else’s status
HMRC property-valuation unit invests in web-mapping tool for ‘historical aerial photographs’
Agency that helps set council tax signs 18-month deal with specialist data firm
Annual public sector financial report faces delays after problems with Treasury IT system
Department’s new OSCAR II platform encountered ‘capacity issues’ over the summer
Police given new guidelines on gathering evidence from rape victims’ phones
Minister claims that new Code of practice outlines that investigations must ‘focus on the suspect, not the victim’
Royal Navy looks to algorithms and analytics to detect anomalies in helicopters
Ministry signs contract with specialist firm to provide an application for engineers to probe data
Chris Philp takes ministerial reins of GDS and CDDO
Digital agencies have yet another new politician in charge after Croydon South MP is moved on from the Treasury
HMRC told to step up Covid fraud recovery work
National Audit Office finds that tax agency is ‘falling short’ in efforts to claw back £4.5bn lost to fraud and error in pandemic support programmes
Government seeks new IT provider for property database after scrapping initial deal
Cabinet Office-led project has been delayed after work with original tech partner was cut short
MI6 recruiting tech team to help provide ‘mission advantage’
Secret Intelligence Service advertises five roles for IT professionals seeking 'technical challenges – the likes of which you will never have seen before’
Civil service plans for high-tech hubs downsized as data shows drop in office occupancy
Government Property Agency chief tells MPs that previous assumptions about buildings being two-thirds full have been reset
Humanoid robot gives evidence to parliamentary committee
AI-powered artist takes questions from peers