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Cummings and Co to move into Cabinet Office hub with ‘real-time performance data’
A number of senior Downing Street figures are to be given space at the central department’s HQ at 70 Whitehall
Scottish Government backtracks on exam grading
Pupils grades will be decided on teacher’s judgement after widespread criticism of impact of ‘deprivation algorithm’
Recruitment of government CDIO ‘still ongoing’, Cabinet Office claims
Applications for newly created perm sec-level position closed more than 10 months ago, since when updates have been scarce
Government claims digital imprints will make online campaigning ‘more transparent’
Cabinet Office launches technical consultation on new proposals
Scottish Parliament green lights remote voting and hybrid meetings
Holyrood to allow members to use technology to vote and attend meetings
‘The civil service needs to modernise’ – departing Whitehall chief urges officials to engage with ‘substance’ of Cummings reform plans
Mark Sedwill says equipping government with ‘more expertise… is a good thing’
PM insists Test and Trace system ‘world-beating’
Labour supports possible creation of local schemes
GDS annual programmes cost £5m less than expected
Cabinet Office annual report shows digital agency also brought in more than £2m in extra revenue
Government defends Test and Trace as councils look to own measures
Authority in Blackburn implements localised initiative to ‘complement’ national scheme
Trade documents hacked from ex-Cabinet minister’s email account, report claims
Liam Fox’s systems were accessed by suspected Russian hackers, it has been reported
Home Office seeks leader for Policy and Innovation Lab
Department recruits for individual to apply design principles to solve government challenges
Statistics regulator finds PM made ‘incorrect’ child poverty claims
Watchdog agrees with campaign group that Boris Johnson made inaccurate statements
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
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
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’
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
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
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