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Online retail heavyweights like Amazon should be subject to more taxes to help 'level the playing field' with physical competitors

Qualifications push targets 11 million adults who lack basic knowhow

Deputy director role set to pay up to £105k a year

Cabinet Office praises Kevin Cunnington for ‘successfully setting GDS in a new direction’ and confirms he is remaining in charge

Director of service design and assurance leaving post but – contrary to media reports – Kevin Cunnington understood to be remaining in place

Infrastructure and Projects Authority – which helps departments ensure delivery of major technology programmes – appoints Alison Baptiste

Assistant director-level post comes with remit to further the authority’s use of user-centred service design

Authority looks for senior manager to spearhead transformation

GDS-based post comes with remit to adapt service standards and best-practice guidelines

Two weeks on from the publication of the strategy to make London the world’s smartest city, the capital’s chief digital officer Theo Blackwell talks PublicTechnology through the plan and the key challenges ahead

Civil servant Zara McDermott has joined the ITV reality show

Theo Blackwell discusses how the soon-to-be-published Smarter London Together strategy document will promote common standards and skills, and help councils use planning powers to promote connectivity

Philip Hammond vows that every building in the UK will have access to an FTTP network within 15 years

Recently appointed boss Ian Bell discusses his mission to ‘repair trust’ in the company while helping forces get the most out of technology

Senior managers sought for Whitehall department and arm's-length agencies

Existing operations chief to switch to post heading up organisation’s Brexit team

Role comes with remit to spearhead strategic vision and oversee rollout of Government Transformation Strategy

Sheila Flavell of FDM Group explains why diversity needs to be much more than just a tick-box exercise

Department also claims that drive to automate is employee-led

Head of government buying agency will exit in July to take post with Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply

Head of the watchdog, Elizabeth Denham, says ICO will be expected to do “more of everything” as strict new data compliance law comes down the track