Seven in ten civil servants want to work from home at least three days a week
Survey conducted by FDA union finds 97% of officials want option of working remotely
Government shakes up digital leadership
Home Office tech chief Davinson appointed leader of newly created Central Digital and Data...
Cummings legacy little more than ‘rearranging some furniture’
Former head of NCSC Ciaran Martin believes that ‘war on Whitehall’ has ended – to minimal...
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Innovative ideas invited for £25,000 Whitehall prize
Foundation set up in memory of late Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood seeks ideas for how to solve challenges created by coronavirus
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
‘We are capturing a comprehensive record of what government has been saying’
Keeper of the National Archives Jeff James on how coronavirus has reinforced the importance of public information
‘Next year shouldn’t be back to normal’
BEIS perm sec Sarah Munby discusses a year of securing millions of vaccines, delivering business loans, and providing guides to safer working
IPA head on working to ensure major-project success during a challenging year
Nick Smallwood discusses the key areas of focus needed for government to deliver transformation schemes
The four (non-coronavirus) public sector tech trends that will define 2021
PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall picks out the big issues that might shape the year ahead. Apart from that one.
‘I am proud of DCMS’s partnership working between ministers, officials and stakeholders’
Permanent secretary Sarah Healey on the challenges of working remotely, and the prospect of opening presents via videoconference
GDS head Fiona Deans on the ‘clear vote of confidence’ of the spending review
Interim director general discusses the organisation’s achievements this year – and its Love Actually-inspired Christmas festivities
Home Office renegotiates £100m AWS deal
Department re-signs contract under terms of new MoU
Plans for Crown Consultancy unit ‘watered down’, report claims
Unit will reportedly advise on use of external firms rather than replace them
No algorithms for Scottish pupils’ grades in 2021
Exams for 16-to-18-year-olds have been cancelled across the country but UK government remains insistent they will continue in England
Remote working opened the doors to cyberattack and data breach risks – we can close them
In 2020 public sector organisations have been tested to a degree never experienced before. According to CrowdStrike, increasing cybersecurity attacks are an additional complication they must navigate in an injurious year.
DWP inks £2m Capgemini partnership to deliver ‘unconstrained innovation’
Department signs contract that looks to improve use of emerging technology
HMRC and Home Office the big winners as spending review commits £600m to ‘fix outdated government IT’
Document also outlines projection of extra £700m revenue from digital taxation regime
Commons hosts first ever virtual PMQs
Boris Johnson appeared in Westminster via video link
Parliament ‘urgently exploring’ remote tech options after MP with cancer excluded from debate
Tracey Crouch was unable to join a debate about breast cancer – for which she is currently being treated
Government explores creation of in-house ‘Crown Consultancy’
Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew reportedly leading project
Dominic Cummings, PM adviser who sought ‘unusual’ tech skills for government, to leave No.10
High profile adviser who had vision for civil service reform and technology reported to be leaving by Christmas
Brexit will mean data is ‘not inappropriately constrained’, minister says
Data minister John Whittingdale says government hopes for agreement with EU, but organisations should prepare for no deal
HMRC keeps digital users happy as fewer people phone
Department says long call waiting times resulted from staff moving to work on coronavirus support schemes