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Will government reconsider digital-only status for EU nationals?
Having hitherto steadfastly maintained its opposition to issuing physical documents to recipients of EU settled status, the Home Office recently met with campaigners to listen to new proposals. PublicTechnology finds out more.
HM Passport Office picks £50m data transformation partner
Kainos awarded potential five-year deal to work on organisation’s data products
‘Thousands may be slipping through the cracks’ – report warns elderly and vulnerable missed by EU settlement scheme
Parliamentary committee concerned that only 2% of applications have come from over-65s
IT professionals sought in Patel’s programme for ‘skilled’ refugees
But critics say pilot programme does not make up for ‘hateful’ new laws
New borders and immigration enforcement chief to oversee conclusion of £400m digital rollout
The Home Office is recruiting a director general for a newly merged post, a key responsibility of which will be overseeing the final stages of its troubled digital borders scheme
Minister claims EU rebuffed UK proposals to maintain mutual free roaming
UK proposed ‘continuation of reciprocal agreements’ – which the EU did not agree to, according to Matt Warman
AI used in Army operation for first time
Soldiers used a tool providing information on nearby terrain
EU settlement scheme received six million applications
Volume of people applying is double the number of EU citizens previously thought to be living in the UK
Government faces calls to extend EU settlement deadline and rethink digital-only status
Former shadow Brexit minister Paul Blomfield warns of ‘Windrush-style scandal’
EU gives UK data adequacy green light
Decision means information can continue to flow freely across borders
MI5 seeks chief data officer who is ‘comfortable with ambiguity’
Role comes with £100k-plus pay packet and remit to help lead transformation programme
Home Office second perm sec to focus on ‘transformation of capabilities’
Tricia Hayes takes on number-two role
Government Covid travel scheme to gather data on 150 million people a year
Home Office systems will store information on all arrivals in the UK for at least six weeks
Home Office talks up digital visa plan
Priti Patel claims tech-based system will provide ‘a far clearer picture of who is here and whether they should be’
New IT system makes little impact on delays to Windrush compensation
Since tech infrastructure was updated a year ago, only a tenth of 1,000-plus applications have reached payment-approval stage
Home Office to set up ‘innovation centre’ in Stoke
Hub for 500 asylum workers forms part of drive to move thousands of civil service posts out of the capital
‘Government has a strong position against paying ransoms to cybercriminals’ – Priti Patel
Home secretary tells conference that complying with demands will only encourage criminals
Lords grill TikTok over Russia relationship
Social media firm denies giving any special treatment to the Kremlin in parliamentary hearing
Settled status: NHS, and government systems can cross-check records to reduce burden on digitally excluded, minister claims
Government still has no plans to issue physical documents
Immigration minister insists high-tech Brexit passports are ‘rigorously tested’
Security-focused documents are put through their paces in exercises designed to mimic 10 years of travel
MI5 warns of thousands of attempts to spy on civil servants via ‘malicious’ online profiles
Officials advised that hostile states use LinkedIn and other sites