The state will work with the Silicon Valley outfit to identity potential uses of tech in public services, as well as the possibility of the firm supporting AI Growth Zones […]...
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NCA investigator convicted over theft of Bitcoin now worth £4.4m
Paul Chowles, formerly an officer at the National Crime Agency, is jailed for more than five years after being found to have stolen virtual currency which he helped to confiscate […]...
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DWP plans ‘risk-based approach’ to new IT investment with 70% of caseloads running through legacy systems
The department’s annual review of the 2025 fiscal year reveals various advancements in its use of technology, although significant future investment is still needed to reduce reliance on ageing infrastructure […]...
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‘No evidence of data theft ‘ in recent Glasgow cyberattack
The local authority for Scotland’s largest city announces that ‘forensic examination’ of the affected infrastructure has now been completed, with initial presumptions of exfiltration not yet having been borne out […]...
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Only 4% of councils filed full audited data for FY24 public sector-wide accounts
Auditors once again decline to give the green light to the annual roundup of the finances of organisations across government and beyond, with 167 councils providing no data at all […]...
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HMRC pegs IT contract spending at £1.6bn a year and targets move away from ‘legacy service integrators’
Annual report outlines efforts to open up procurement to more providers, to support objective to ‘have fewer technologies providing our IT platforms, so we can scale them up more easily’ […]...
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NHS plans £150m deal for digital ‘personalisation’
Health service body issues notice of intent to implement a contract of up to five years in length with a provider of digital support that can help deliver service upgrades […]...
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Major tech projects to require speedier business cases to boost transparency
Ministers have announced that a wide range of Whitehall programmes of work, including delivery of many major tech deployments, are to be subject to new requirements for swiftly releasing information […]...
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EXCL: Government picks Public Digital for £5m deal to help deliver Public Sector Reform Scheme
The tech consultancy is part of a consortium, also featuring Blavitnik School of Government and New Local, appointed to help government with a ‘team of experienced digital and data practitioners’ […]...
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Public sector spends £2bn on Microsoft licences in first five months of discount MoU
A Cabinet Office minister has indicated that, having been introduced late last year, the Crown Commercial Service’s latest public sector savings arrangement with the software giant has seen significant usage […]...
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