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Budget 2025: Revamped spend controls to ‘delegate decisions to those closest to delivery’

Treasury documents published alongside the fiscal exercise reveal plans to ensure that central bodies focus

Budget 2025: DSIT to deliver datacentre plan to focus on ‘most strategic and credible projects’

As part of a range of projects and investments in computing infrastructure, Whitehall’s tech department

EXCL: GOV.UK App passes 250,000 downloads

While the program’s user base remains at fewer than one in every 200 UK adults,

Scottish council hit by major ransomware attack ‘had gaps in cybersecurity’

Two years ago the local authority for the Outer Hebrides suffered a cyber incursion that

Budget 2025: HMRC given £59m tech for digital prompts and e-invoicing

As the department hits a digital interaction rate of 80%, more money and additional legislation

Budget 2025: NHS gets £300m to help make app ‘single user-facing service’ for patients

Yesterday’s fiscal exercise includes an extra injection of funding for health tech, with a particular

Home Office appoints McKinsey exec Mike McCarthy as new digital chief

After 15 years with the management consultancy, Army veteran arrives in government to take the

Regulator’s review finds government PR opaque on source of stats

A watchdog charged with monitoring official statistics has issued a report which concludes that five

Services at inner London councils hit by cyber incident

Three boroughs near the heart of the capital have shut down some systems warned local

Wolverhampton looks to AI to help catch littering drivers

West Midlands authority reveals plans to use the kind of software and camera technology behind

Average tenure of departmental CDIOs calculated at three years seven months

The government’s digital centre denies there is a problem with more managers leaving the civil

Government adds £240m and three extra years to AI framework

Whitehall’s procurement agency reveals that one of its core arrangements to enable public bodies to

UK government ‘assessing proposal’ for EU AI laws to be implemented in Northern Ireland

European lawmakers believe that new legislation should apply across the island of Ireland and, while

HMRC faces watchdog probe over ‘high-profile stats errors’

Government’s tax agency is to go through a ‘comprehensive review of its processes’ after recently

GDS launches local government unit and cross-public sector skills hub

Government’s technology unit has reactivated its local government ambitions with the launch of a specialist

Home Office explores AI tools to target asylum backlog

The Whitehall department is examining the potential of various types of technology, with the possibility

Scottish Government plans public services app

New smartphone tool for use by Scotland’s citizens will initially focus on information about the

More services impacted in latest outage as government and NHS stress use of multiple cloud providers

The Cloudflare network security system, which enables about a fifth of all websites, was the
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