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DfE signs potential £60m digital deals to support major schools programmes

The department has picked suppliers to fulfil contracts providing design, data, testing and product delivery

DHSC seeks data science head to boost ‘capability across the department’

Health department seeks to appoint a new technical leader to oversee a small team of

Cross-public sector financial report dogged by missing data

Auditors have been unable to sign off on the latest version of the annual statement

Government plans £4bn-plus Transport Technology framework

Crown Commercial Service has revealed plans to create a major new agreement next year allowing

‘DWP’s radically improved digital offer will put a Jobcentre in your pocket’

Under sweeping reforms announced this week by the new Labour administration, Jobcentres and government careers

Scottish data watchdog issues warning over non-corporate communications

David Hamilton, the information commissioner for Scotland, has flagged up an ‘awful mix’ of different

MoJ commits £70m to duo of device deals

Government’s largest department has signed off two thirds of a trio of engagements forming part

West Northamptonshire seeks ‘vital link’ in bid to become most innovative council

Local authority serving Northampton and other local towns is seeking to hire a data expert

Russia: Minister warns on ‘appeasing aggressive and reckless cyber threat’

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster tells UK’s Nato allies that adversaries could deploy AI

Home Office creates ‘high risk and complex’ major project to transform police intel database

After scaling back a previously planned joint project, a scheme has been launched focused solely

GDS ops chief Robinson takes on role leading creation of ‘Future DSIT’

After completing the recent move from the Cabinet Office, the COO of the tech unit

PM says ‘no plans’ for government agencies to open Bluesky accounts

As large numbers of new registrants reportedly join the alternative social platform, Keir Starmer, has

MoJ records £5.6m loss after scrapping Common Platform functionality

Following a decision that was made earlier this year to retain the existing Digital Case

Ministers report ‘significant acceleration’ in algorithm transparency adoption

Government announced earlier this year that the implementation of the Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard will

MPs to probe relationship between algorithms and misinformation

Members of the House of Commons science and tech committee are understood to have invited

Government comms teams can use TikTok ‘in exceptional circumstances’

Following a ban implemented last year, which enabled exceptions for the likes of law enforcement

MoJ and HMRC sign £8m security deals

Duo of huge Whitehall ministries have each awarded supplier contracts to run throughout 2025 and

Government ditches vetting transformation scheme but remains ‘committed to modernising’

Major project to bring digitisation and reform to UK Security Vetting is formally scrapped but,
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