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
Ex-cabinet minister failed to wait for official advice before announcing role with TalkTV,...
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Covid inquiry: Government lawyers sign £23m deals for document disclosure
Long-term contracts cover data from a range of specified departments
Ex-Whitehall top dog to join board of defence and security firm
Former cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill has landed a non-executive role at BAE Systems
Russia: sanctions tightened on exports of monitoring and military tech
New measures prohibit supply of any tech used for ‘internal repression’
DWP signs potential £1m deal to measure and analyse employee experience
Department awards contract to specialist supplier – which will also lead a pilot of a more sophisticated customer feedback system
Scottish minister criticises UK government broadband rollout for leaving hardest-to-connect places to last
Finance secretary Kate Forbes claims that implementation in Scotland has begun with remote and rural areas
10 Downing St offers over £100k for data science whizz
Prime minister’s in-house data science unit seeks senior manager to deliver ‘high-impact’ initiatives
GDS spent £5m on ‘data and user insights’ last year
Minister reveals organisation undertook a range of work to gain insights into performance of services
DHSC chiefs acknowledge slips in record-keeping over £600m Covid testing contracts
Leaders of health department and UKHSA admit to MPs that some meetings with Randox went undocumented
‘Consistency and simplification’ – CCS looks to standardise framework guidance
Procurement agency seeks research and design specialist to support work to streamline advice for buyers
IPO clears patent backlog and claims digital services will help avoid future queues
Long-standing to-do list was cleared by recruitment of staff and dedication of resources to focus on key technology areas
Parliament to delete data on MPs’ attendance after ministers decry FOI release
Senior parliamentarians are understood to have complained about the storage and release of information collected from use of security passes
Government to offer schools cyber response and insurance services
From next school year, organisations will be able to benefit from monitoring and help with costs
Scottish 5G centre shows off innovation
Bank of England chief impressed by tech development
‘This lack of transparency could undermine trust’ – DWP scolded over failure to publish research data
Parliamentary committee writes to department urging greater openness
Climate change: Government app to ‘encourage small lifestyle changes’
Environment agency signs £500k deal with software developer
Dundee opens doors on £18m cybersecurity R&D facility
Government-backed hub aims to create jobs and improve resilience
Whitehall chief: ‘From AOs to perm secs – we all need to be data confident’
Government operations leader wants departments to make better use of the ‘huge amounts of data’ at their disposal
First five services to pilot new government-wide login from September
Minister says rollout of One Login will learn the lessons of previous projects and will not take a ‘big bang’ approach
Government to move 2,500 officials to ‘digitally enabled’ Manchester hub
The city centre facility will include hundreds of civil service posts relocated from London
DWP signs potential £50m Atos deal for IT system to support personal independence payment assessments
Platform will go live with assessment providers next summer
Highlands and Islands gets IoT funding boost
Scottish Government supports scheme to fund firms’ investment in connected technologies