Scottish parliamentarians sign up for service to track online personal threats
Tool will run on a trial basis for a year
Cost of developing emergency alerts system pegged at £25m
Minister reveals up more than £4m spent on testing, security and other support contracts
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Ancient IT reportedly stopped Sunak raising benefits to keep pace with inflation
Reports claim that chancellor was advised that payments of legacy benefits could only be increased once a year
Cost-of-living crisis: ONS to explore web scraping data to track supermarket prices
Agency’s dedicated data-science facility looks to make a big contribution to government’s response to rising costs
MPs criticise Cabinet Office over ‘substandard FoI handling’
Report claims that department requires a ‘cultural shift’
DVLA to tap into Home Office immigration status service to expedite driving-licence applications
Agency to establish ‘electronic link’ with department, minister claims
Cabinet Office signs £400k deal for digital accessibility audits
Central department stresses importance of ‘highest standards’, given its role in ensuring others’ compliance with regulation
DWP to resume migration to Universal Credit
All benefit claimants will be moved over to unified system by the end of 2024
Dorset MP takes on YouTube after removal of video on ‘Covid vaccine damage’
Footage of Conservative Christopher Chope giving speech in Commons was taken down in accordance with ‘misinformation policies’
Home Office’s secretive anti-extremism comms unit signs £1m media monitoring deal
RICU facility signs two-year contract
Minister: ‘Exact alignment to EU law is not a requirement for data adequacy’
Treasury faces parliamentary questions about potential risks of planned regulatory reforms
YouTube cites ‘Covid misinformation policies’ in removal of Tory MP’s parliament speech
Christopher Chope laments ‘cancel culture’ after video of him talking in Commons about ‘Covid-19 vaccine damage’ is taken down from website
Environment Agency unveils Minecraft replica of Preston to promote climate change education
Government agency works with tech firms in virtual version of Lancashire city
‘Typical hostile environment treatment’ – Home Office leaves thousands of Turkish nationals waiting more than a year for visa decisions
Applicants tell PublicTechnology that they have been provided with little information on the processing delays that mean they cannot leave the UK – even for births or funerals – and struggle to prove their right to live and work in this country
Bournemouth council signs £150k deal for ‘bereavement software’
Tech tool will help citizens and deathcare professionals
MoJ launches digital service for citizens to request info held on them
Department unveils online platform through which solicitors and members of the public can make subject access requests
Half of firms in scope of online income tax scheme have no digital records, HMRC research finds
Only one in five currently uses software as part of their bookkeeping set-up
Patel apologises for ‘frustrating’ delays with only half of Ukrainian visa applications approved so far
Just one in seven applicants has made it to the UK to date
DCMS seeks social media monitoring firm to help ‘build comprehensive picture of misinformation’
Department floats 10-month contract worth half a million pounds
Homes for Ukraine registrants targeted by online fraudsters
The government has been criticised for the time it is taking to match refugees with sponsors – who have been targeted by scams while trying to find their own matches
GDS boss puts ‘mobile-first and hyperpersonalisation’ at heart of future service transformation
Tom Read tells PublicTechnology Live about GDS’s plans to drive transformation into its second decade, and how the agency’s future priorities were informed by its peers in Ukraine
Digitally excluded facing ever ‘more acute’ disadvantages as some groups remain 60% offline
Although 94% of households now have the internet, people who are aged over 70, live alone and have a disability are far more likely to lack connection
High Court rules that border officials unlawfully seized 2,000 phones from asylum seekers
Judgement finds that Home Office policy breached human rights laws