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DWP signs £15m deal to ‘enhance’ digital service for UC targeted case reviews

Benefits department enters into agreement to support upgrades to digital service that underpins initiative launched

Minister pledges ‘once-only rule’ for citizen info

A tenet that people should not have to provide details more than once will be

Improved analytics could save Whitehall billions in fraud losses, NAO report finds

Auditors warn that there is currently ‘no clear plan’ to realise the potential of data

HMRC seeks ‘novel and innovative solutions’ to help close £50bn tax gap

The department has outlined its intent to put in place a £6m commercial engagement with

Foreign Office seeks £162k CDIO to join department ‘on the cusp of an exciting digital transformation’

Whitehall department advertises top techie role to help dictate and deliver vision for the rest

Horizon probe recommends dedicated body to manage compensation

The public inquiry into the major miscarriage of justice linked to Fujitsu’s faulty Post Office

GDS set for big budget boost in FY26, DSIT accounts show

The annual report of its new parent department shows that, over the course of a

Government confirms Digital Inclusion Action Committee

Members of group convened to advise ministers and officials include representatives of Good Things Foundation

Government looks internally for new post as ONS perm sec

The position, the creation of which stems from a recent critical review of the statistics

NHS signs £17m digital partner for bookings and referrals

London consultancy that has previously won 30 health service deals, including some worth tens of

NCSC sees doubling of ‘nationally significant incidents’ this year

A minister at the FCDO has indicated that, while overall levels of attacks requiring the

Small boats: Home Office hopes £15m AI and automation deal will boost surveillance

In the same week as Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer agree a new collaboration on

FCDO plans to insource £17.6m of annual digital contractor spend

Whitehall’s foreign affairs department intends to potentially eliminate the use of hundreds of external contractors

Tech secretary intervenes to call for defence refocus of Turing Institute

Peter Kyle has reportedly written to the UK’s national research body for artificial intelligence to

HMPPS sheds light on prisoner ‘violence estimator’ algorithm

Tool uses the information of a prisoner’s age and previous behaviour to project how many

Emergency Alert test to be sent to 87 million phones in second national trial

Previous trial saw several million people fail to receive dummy version of messages used to

Scottish Government backs public sector tech firms with £7m

The devolved administration’s CivTech programme has been in operation for almost a decade, and has

HMRC legacy decommissioning scheme requires ‘phased approach and careful consideration’

The government tax department recently indicated that it believed it will achieve annualised savings of
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