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More frequent information from HMRC allows update to technology criticised by education officials last year

Jim Harra sheds light on the department's priorities for 2020 – and why he once hid his sister's Christmas presents

In the 12 months to the end of September, the department incurred potential interest of £2.66m – an increase of more than £2m than the preceding 12-month period

Formerly head of DDaT skills across government, Ellis has taken on public sector-focused post at cloud heavyweight

County council publishes three-lot framework tender

NAO head claims many government programmes are dogged by unrealistic costings and creeping scope

Department advertises £140k position as CFO

The NCSC’s annual report reveals that a public sector entity or business is hit with a major cyberattack about twice each day. PublicTechnology looks at the biggest risks facing government and how they can be mitigated

Office for Statistics Regulation will – at HMRC’s behest – examine error that saw tax contributions double-counted

DCMS seeks input on barriers to improving security and effectiveness of existing laws

Digital agency pledges to ‘keep the policy as it stands’

Tax agency appoints banking bigwig as replacement for Jacky Wright

Digital secretary confirms that the UK’s next government will be the one to make the call on whether to allow the Chinese vendor to help build the country’s telecoms infrastructure

CMA to establish behavioural insights unit that will examine issues such as fake reviews and paid-for endorsements

Tax authority is piloting programmes to use data to identify people that may have been taken in by firms selling tax-avoidance initiatives

Buying processes should be seen as an enabler of innovation, rather than a barrier, according to Georgina Maratheftis of techUK

Simon Eccles talks to Gill Hitchcock about AI, apps, open APIs and uniting innovative SMEs with clinicians to transform the health service

Up to four suppliers to be appointed to deals to provide services for digital tax and transaction-monitoring systems

Some departments report vast increases following introduction of new data-protection legislation

As concerns about timescales linger, department looks at ways to ensure success of programme’s ‘ramp-up phase’

Government seeks input on possible new methods of protecting currency