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
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Home Office seeks leader for Policy and Innovation Lab
Department recruits for individual to apply design principles to solve government challenges
Network problems disrupt G-Cloud 12 applications
CCS and GDS work to identify affected firms
Statistics regulator finds PM made ‘incorrect’ child poverty claims
Watchdog agrees with campaign group that Boris Johnson made inaccurate statements
Cabinet Office cleared for £30m plan to move back-office apps to SaaS
Spend-control data shows approval for eight-figure investment in project to migrate from on-premises infrastructure to hosted environment
Former DFID and FCO exec Lindy Cameron to lead National Cyber Security Centre
Replacement for Ciaran Martin announced
Addressing government legacy IT to be ‘a key focus of spending review’
Chief secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay claims that half of government’s IT spend goes on supporting ageing kit
Treasury’s £250m IT deal with NTT Data to be extended into eighth year
Contract came with an initial seven-year potential term but will now run until 2022
Home buying goes paperless
HM Land Registry announces acceptance of electronic signatures for mortgages and other deeds
Privacy Shield: government working with ICO to ‘update guidance as soon as possible’
The invalidation of the EU-US data-protection agreement could have major ramifications for UK organisations’ legal responsibilities
‘Policing is not set up for a world in which so much crime is committed online’
Major review of police across England and Wales finds forces are ill-equipped to cope with the huge rise in recent years of cyber offences
Tory MP believes he was victim of ‘state-supported’ cyber campaign after China criticism
Foreign affairs committee chair Tom Tugendhat says false claims and fake press releases were sent to friends and professional contacts
Government mulls online sales tax to counteract high-street hit
Chancellor considers levy on internet sales
Official Secrets Act set for digital revamp
Law set to be revised to better reflect changes in tech and data
Courts to begin using £280m digital Common Platform system in September
Early adopter programme to see 18 courts test digital case-management system
Home Office breaches spending limits after opting against tech tool
Department chose not to deploy IT that could have detected breach due to its ‘complexity and cost’
China accused of ‘malicious cyberattacks’ on UK targets
Foreign secretary says he is ‘deeply concerned’ by arrest of two Chinese nationals
Minister defies value-for-money concerns to push ahead with £400m OneWeb buyout
Business secretary Sharma issues ministerial direction after perm sec flags up ‘significant downside risks’ of acquisition of bankrupt firm
‘HMRC has risen to the challenge’ of coronavirus response, says CEO Harra
Tax agency head salutes colleagues’ work in building new platforms at speed
Responsibility for government data use returns to GDS
Group of policymakers to move from DCMS to form basis of new team
Civil servants asked to share government gripes
Ahead of technology- and data-led reforms, officials have been invited to vent their frustrations with how Whitehall works
Government invests £500m in military comms satellite
Deal for Airbus technology follows £400m spent on acquiring OneWeb