Whitehall’s environment department will minimise use of contractors and pursue tech reform in the coming years, with its broad stable of agencies and public bodies a particular area of focus […]...

The guidelines first created 13 years ago to support designers of citizen services has been added to for the first time, with an instruction to help officials think about sustainability […]...

Government department responsible for operating the national register of tens of millions of property titles believes that 300,000 hours of citizens’ time will be saved in the next three years […]...

The food hygiene watchdog has implemented a variety of both ‘generative and traditional’ automation technologies, including trials of a mobile app supporting the work of frontline safety inspectors examining businesses […]...

The council for one of the UK’s flattest and lowest counties plans to supplement its response to frequent flooding with greater use of automated technology to support citizens and officials […]...

The Rural Payments Agency, which oversees the delivery of more than 40 support schemes, is looking to deploy new digital systems that use satellite imagery to enable remote compliance monitoring […]...

The environment department’s annual report indicates that scores of applications were successfully closed down or remediated during the 2023-24 year, enabling the imminent closure of a clutch of infrastructure facilities […]...

Environment department retains major consultancy to monitor the performance of its software and deliver maintenance services, which Defra claims will enable civil service professionals to spend time on strategic planning […]...

As official data for last year shows sewage crisis worsening, the government is creating additional ways for the public to report issues, which currently typically  number about 100,000 per annum […]...

With an array of agencies and a technology estate containing hundreds of legacy apps, the environment department requires a group of cyber suppliers to run the rule over its systems […]...