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East Suffolk looks to smart towns
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Contact-tracing app downloads top 10 million
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MPs call for new sanctions for social media firms that ‘monetise misinformation’
A parliamentary committee has demanded the creation of a dedicated regulator with the power to levy ‘significant’ financial penalties
Munby named BEIS boss
Department appoints business sectors head as government’s youngest permanent secretary
HMRC Making Tax Digital to continue rollout in 2022
The programme will be extended to all businesses and then to individuals, government has announced
Government agrees to provide councils with daily individual testing data
Move comes after calls from local authorities
Russian ambassador says there is ‘no sense’ in vaccine cyberattack allegations
But foreign secretary Raab claims UK is ‘absolutely confident’ in attribution and was right to make public pronouncement
Public sector cyber procurement quadruples in five years
PublicTechnology research shows a big spike in the number of contracts awarded to IT security specialists by public-sector buyers
Hancock to launch review of ‘misleading’ coronavirus death data, according to reports
Analysis posits that deaths may have been incorrectly attributed to Covid-19
Salaries of government technologists in same pay band differ by as much as £40,000
Report from NAO finds big disparities in Whitehall pay packets
CCS claims £1bn savings for public sector in FY20
Annual accounts show uplift in framework usage across both central government and the wider public sector
UK calls out Russia for ‘despicable’ cyberattacks on vaccine efforts
NCSC joins up with counterparts from US and Canada to attribute phishing and malware assaults to Kremlin-linked entities
UK export strategy hindered by data gaps
NAO report finds that Department for International Trade also needs to improve digital services
NHS suspends use of coronavirus test kits over ‘safety’ issue
Use of kits supplied by Randox has been paused ‘until further notice’
Chinese officials lament ‘disappointing and wrong’ Huawei decision
Representatives of China’s government criticise move, while Huawei claims decision is about trade, rather than security concerns
DWP to trial formal remote-working programme
Most department staff have remained onsite during pandemic, although some ‘ad hoc’ arrangements have been made
Coronavirus has shown Whitehall can avoid getting 'bogged down' in bureaucracy – civil service chief
Chief operating officer Alex Chisholm calls for 'experimentation and innovation'
UK 5G network faces three-year delay and £2bn extra cost as government confirms Huawei expulsion
The Chinese tech vendor’s kit will be removed entirely by 2027, digital secretary Oliver Dowden has announced
Minister believes government ‘likely’ to see return on £400m investment in satellite firm
Before entering bankruptcy OneWeb had been funded to the tune of $3.3bn with no revenues generated yet
Downing St assembles data science A-team
Dominic Cummings’ ambitions realised as prime minister’s office seeks to recruit crack squad of data scientists for No. 10 skunkworks
DWP told to ‘prioritise improvements to Universal Credit digital system’
Report from NAO finds that programme may end up costing more than the systems it replaced
Recruitment firm wins £4m two-year GDS deal to provide government with ‘urgent’ digital support
LA International Computer Consultants wins contract to provide agile teams at short notice
HMRC border IT systems given £100m boost
Government unveils package of £700m to support post-Brexit border arrangements as it launches major comms campaign