DWP seeks leader to build gen AI team and plots £12m deal to target ‘to be identified business problems’
Department is offering potential £94k salary for a deputy director level post, while outlining its
            		
		Government invites joiners for ‘low code community’
A group for specialists in low code tools, which allow non-technical staff to create software
            		
		DVSA uses AI to help create theory-test questions
The government agency with responsibility for administering driving tests and certifying the safety of buses
            		
		HMRC takes ‘deep dive’ on complaints response after customer-service challenges
The tax agency’s service levels for users have come under scrutiny in the past couple
            		
		Liverpool City Council seeks suppliers for £30m tech framework
Local authority in the north west will appoint a handful of suppliers to fulfil the
            		
		Post Office signs £500k deal to help automate Horizon compensation processes
After senior managers previously flagged up the potential for automating the fixed payments offered to
            		
		Aberdeenshire taps AI to help create reports
Scottish local authority reveals use of Microsoft Copilot software, which has previously been widely deployed
            		
		Government gets go-ahead for Manchester Digital Campus for 7,000 officials
The city, which government claims has a ‘long-standing legacy for technological advancement’, will be home
            		
		DWP signs £5m deal for thousands of ‘lightweight laptops’
The department has entered into its third deal with IT supplier CDW in the space
            		
		Home Office seeks data leader to ‘address strategic issues facing the department’
Role on offer can be based in either London or Manchester and comes with a
            		
		EXCL: GDS closes One Login privacy and inclusion scrutiny group
Group advising and scrutinising issues of data protection and accessibility for digital ID tool has
            		
		‘My overwhelming sense was that government hadn’t joined the dots of a coming revolution’ – ex-digital minister
Matt Warman was commissioned to undertake a review of the impact of technology on working
            		
		Minister: ‘Spending review will tackle legacy IT and invest in cyber, cloud and AI tech’
Former top scientific adviser Lord Vallance has reiterated the significance of recent strategic moves and
            		
		GOV.UK Pay looks to beef up capabilities with £60m payment provider deal
After nine years and more than £6bn in fees taken by over 1,000 services, GDS
            		
		Watchdog signs off consultancy gig for ex-Whitehall leader Chisholm but warns ‘risks must be mitigated’
One of the world’s largest consulting firms, with annual revenues of almost £10bn, has hired
            		
		Algorithmic transparency requirement added to digital spend controls
Tweaks made to government’s commercial guidance for departments’ spending on digital and tech projects include
            		
		HMRC opens bids for £450m deal for digital NI-GB trade platform
Government tax agency is seeking a new provider partner to assist with the delivery of
            		
		Nine-department shared services group signs £25m deals for ‘implementation and change’ consultancy
Matrix cluster of policy departments, which is to standardise on Workday systems, is led by
            		