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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GDS signs £5m support deal for new Emergency Alerts Service
New government initiative to send SMS warnings picks core supplier
New law aims to enable ‘paperless trade’ for UK firms
Proposed legislation will mean businesses selling overseas will no longer need to use a range of hard-copy documents
Departments equipped with standards for handling service-user complaints
New guidelines set out procedures that should be adopted
HMRC issues fraud warning after taking down 10,000 websites in a year
Scammers will aim to take advantage during a time of year when many are completing tax returns, department warns
Foreign Office signs £7.5m two-year deal to support cyber transformation
Department signs deal with defence contractor
DHSC waves goodbye to commercial chief
Department’s first-ever CCO is to leave Whitehall after leading engagement with healthtech sector and overseeing Covid supply activities
Leeds looks to robotics to help transform services despite ‘significant financial challenges’
City council to undertake year-long six-figure programme of work
Courts workers confirm nine-day strike over IT issues
PCS Union announces rescheduled industrial action in protest at problems caused by Common Platform system
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