The department has updated its privacy notice and added significant new sections concerning the use of AI and automation where it is ‘necessary and proportionate’ in delivering taxation and benefits […]...

The Government Digital Service has named former One Login senior official Ash Smith as the director of GOV.UK, a role in which he will replace new interim CEO Christine Bellamy […]...

Ministers reveal proposals for updated funding model for the UK’s data protection regulator, with businesses to be asked to pay as much as £1,000 extra per year for registration services […]...

The Scottish Government has suspended its programme for equipping digitally excluded people with devices, as reports claim the move has been taken to help support a local government pay deal […]...

The department, which has been working in recent years on transforming services and offering online options, has signed another deal with its existing digital commercial partner to support children’s services […]...

A new report from the national auditor general has called on the Scottish Government to do more to tackle an issue that could hamper vulnerable citizens in exercising their rights […]...

A study from the suicide prevention charity the Molly Rose Foundation has found inconsistent impact of legislation and calls on the new government to ‘finish the job’ by strengthening regulation […]...

In its annual report, department makes good on a pledge to develop, undertake and reveal the outcome of a fairness analysis, but declines to provide detailed findings of the process […]...

Annual report and financial statements for 2023/24 reveal that the department also boosted its investment in areas such as transformation and resilience, including major programmes to modernise services and infrastructure […]...