
Defra offers £75k for ‘unique’ role leading cross-government sustainable IT plans
Environment department is advertising a senior position to help drive the sustainability of its IT

MPs take HMRC to task on ‘governance and accountability’ of Making Tax Digital
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has written to the tax agency’s leadership and taken issue with

Parliament pushes DWP for info on impact of AI on benefit claims
The head of the Public Accounts Committee pushes back on the department’s claim that fraudsters

CDDO seeks engineering chief to ‘lead thinking of technologists across government’
Central Digital and Data Office is recruiting a senior manager to join its leadership team

Universities unveil tech designed to discover ‘first Earth-like planet’
The astrocomb laser system developed by researchers from Heriot-Watt and Cambridge Universities has been compared

Scotland to introduce mandatory national register of public sector AI
The Scottish AI Register is currently populated on a voluntary basis, but ministers have announced

Leicester City Council reveals 25 ‘confidential documents’ released by ransomware gang
Local authority acknowledges breach of citizens’ sensitive data and indicates that it was targeted by

Ex-spy chief cleared for roles at trio of tech firms
Former head of GCHQ Sir Jeremy Fleming has been given a green light by government’s

HMRC completes line-up for £3bn legacy software upgrade framework
Three final lots of DALAS agreement – with a forecast worth in excess of £1bn

Slough seeks tech chief to ‘lead step-change in how we collect and use data’
Borough council is seeking a technology leader to join an authority that ‘is never far

Government urged to deploy tech to tackle number-spoofing fraud
Expert from BBC TV show Scam Interceptors encourages regulators to make greater use of technology

New AI Safety Institute to work with US counterparts
Ministers from the US and the UK have unveiled a transatlantic memorandum of understanding through

Environment Agency adds millions to deal for new national flood risk platform
Spending on the National Flood Risk Assessment 2 system could rise to £14.5m as a

Concerns raised over Treasury public-sector finance data
As the latest version of the Whole of Government Accounts is published, the NAO has

DWP reveals staged rollout for delayed £100m Pensions Dashboard Programme
An updated timeline has been set for the major project to create a single online

Ransomware gang threatens mass release of NHS patient data
Following a recent attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish health board has confirmed

Government comms unit taps into tech tool to track Russian social disinformation
A Cabinet Office team has signed a contract of up two years enabling experts to

Parliament seeks £140k digital chief to lead three-year tech strategy
Parliamentary Digital Service advertises vacant position as managing director, a role that comes with oversight