
Spending Review: Digital government plans backed with £1.9bn
One pound in ten of the £3.25bn transformation fund will support the work of GDS

DWP signs £265m contact centre deal with UK SME
Departmental deal could nearly triple Bristolian outfit’s annual revenue, as CEO says growth is built

Home Office hopes automatic data-sharing will ‘reduce need to evidence immigration status’
Minister indicates that, by allowing systems across the health service and Whitehall agencies to better

AI training to be provided to every government employee
Annual programme focused on promoting growth in a key area of expertise each year will,

Government has ‘mountain to climb’ addressing tech procurement issues, MPs find
A PAC study claims that key departments do not have a handle on spending data

MoJ signs £70m deal for device-management and infrastructure services
Government’s largest department signs French IT giant to take on delivery of identity access and

MHRA seeks 30 digital experts for new Leeds tech hub
UK regulator for health products and services has established a new tech centre in West

New digital commercial plan will ‘drive down usage and optimise software assets’
The minister for artificial intelligence and digital government has claimed that a strategy being created

‘No known alternative’ – Scottish NHS to retain digital supplier on new five-year £18m deal for out-of-hours care system
Technology from OneAdvanced, formerly known as Adastra, has been used to support urgent support services

AI could help with two-fifths of public sector workload, Turing study finds
New research from the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence finds that

GDS signs £20m AWS cloud-hosting deal after formal completion of DSIT move
Legislation coming into force this week formalises the transfer of the digital unit to DSIT,

Military innovation agency’s work ‘could not currently be achieved’ without animal testing
Dstl, which has previously brought in screening providers to help prevent the possibility of recruiting

DCMS digital chief Ross Maude joins Cabinet Office
Seven years after joining government, former Companies House and culture department leader starts work at

HMRC loses £47m after criminals gain access to 100,000 PAYE accounts
Leaders provide MPs with details of losses, including clarification that incident is not a cyber

Oldham seeks £115k digital chief to lead work on ‘revolutionising our borough and our services’
A role as director of digital is one of various leadership posts up for grabs,

MoD backs calls for AI to help thousands of backroom staff into frontline roles
Government has endorsed all calls set out in a recent review, including recommendations to reduce

Cross-public sector cyber duties moved into GDS
Prime minister announces that, following the creation of the government’s new digital centre in DSIT,

Scottish NHS transformation requires ‘stronger governance’, report finds
Scotland’s body for auditing public bodies and services has warned that the complexity of structures