 
		Departments told to prep for new digital finance data system
HM Treasury is preparing to implement a new digital system that is intended to support
            		 
		HMRC opens bidding for £500m hyperscale contract to address ‘increasing levels of technical debt’
The department has concluded that it wishes to appoint one of the market’s biggest cloud
            		 
		GDS unveils colourful £500k refresh of GOV.UK
Monochrome logo replaced with more blue, with a redesign that government hopes ‘works for everyone’,
            		 
		Scottish Government shows progress on broadband rollout
Holyrood’s flagship programme for boosting connectivity across the remote and rural areas of Scotland rolled
            		 
		DWP plans £11m engagement to ensure long-term future of AI-powered ‘conversational platform’
A system which invites callers to describe enquiries in their own words was deployed in
            		 
		NHS claims approval of new GP IT system breaks duo’s 25-year dominance
Green light has been given to a new digital platform from Medicus, giving the firm
            		 
		Glasgow services downed and citizen data ‘presumed’ stolen after cyberattack
The local authority for Scotland’s largest city has announced that a breach was first discovered
            		 
		More than three quarters of calls to HMRC classified as ‘failure demand’ in 2024/25
The proportion of helpline interactions that are caused by the departments’ errors and delays, or
            		 
		Scottish Government backs innovative academic spin-outs with £4m fund
Ministers have begun investing a funding package with support for initiatives including a project to
            		 
		Salford seeks head of AI and data ‘to drive a radical transformation’
City council advertises vacant post for leader to oversee creation of strategy intended to help
            		 
		Industrial strategy targets data-sharing and tech collaboration
A major new national strategy, which government claims is ‘unashamedly long term’, homes in on
            		 
		UPDATED: Government stresses ‘limited time and strict terms’ as HMRC signs £220m Fujitsu contingency extension
As department retains supplier on datacentre deal, government initially stated there was a wider drive
            		 
		New GDS-led cyber ops will be ‘more interventionist’
To support ongoing delivery of a strategy covering cyber across the public sector, a new
            		 
		MHCLG seeks digital doyen to help prep for lowering voting age to 16
Making good on manifesto commitment to allow more than a million extra voters to take
            		 
		Labour MP: ‘Trust in AI is built through competence – not glossy PR’
Member with tech policy background has argued for the creation of rules that address specific
            		 
		DWP seeks additional change and delivery expertise for £2.5bn shared services scheme
Leader of quartet of departments uniting operations on software infrastructure is advertising a contract worth
            		 
		Government to recruit permanent chief digital officer via open competition
The senior role as government’s overall digital leader, and head of the new and expanded
            		 
		Scottish GPs’ tech ‘not fit for purpose’
Sector leaders tell a parliamentary committee that surgeries are reliant on hardware and software from
            		