
Cabinet Office seeks cyber chief
Organisation is offering a compensation package in excess of £100k for a leader to set

DWP backed with £17m to digitise services and upgrade Child Maintenance systems
The funding pledge – announced as a trailer for the budget – is intended to

Government backs space clusters
UK Space Agency announces backing for a sextet of initiatives intended to support local centres

DfT seeks to tap into mobile and GPS data to track transport trends
Department seeks supplier to support a £300k proof of concept exercise that is intended to

Common Platform: HMCTS opts to retain existing case-management tool for criminal courts
The courts service has downscaled its plans for the ongoing rollout of the £300m new

Downing Street data-science squad working on tracking programme success and delivering ‘lightweight data-sharing tools’
Cabinet Office minister Alex Bughart has lifted the lid on some of the work being

DWP extends Universal Credit database deal with £32m contract
The department’s new engagement with incumbent supplier runs for three years and also includes provision

Growth in ‘deep skills in digital and data’ has enabled £400m reduction in consultancy spend, government ops chief claims
Cabinet Office head and civil service COO Alex Chisholm reveals that government found it ‘too

Ex-NCSC head calls for criminalisation of ransomware payments
Ciaran Martin has urged the UK to take the lead and claimed that only ‘terrible

MoJ spend on tackling legacy tech more than doubles to £60m in FY23
Since 2021 the department has increased threefold the size of its dedicated fund for upgrading

AI to be ‘significant downward driver’ of Whitehall headcount, says deputy PM
Oliver Dowden has unveiled plans to invest more than £100m in the work of the

Home Office’s GPS migrant-monitoring broke law, ICO finds
Department claims it is ‘disappointed’ to receive an enforcement notice over a 16-month programme to

DWP invests in user testing tool to tap into ‘holistic insights’
Department signs deal with specialist technology firm that will provide a platform to enable Universal

Cabinet Office ‘tries to do too many things’, according to departing chief
Outgoing permanent secretary Alex Chisholm has told MPs – in possibly his last select committee

MPs issue warning over HMRC customer service
Public Accounts Committee has published a report claiming that service levels are at an ‘all

Scottish Government retains XMA for £100m device deal
Devolved administration has awarded the latest iteration of its longstanding framework covering the provision of

DWP consolidates eight Oracle support contracts into existing £50m engagement
The Department for Work and Pensions has brought together various deals under the umbrella of

Scottish Government sets up Silicon Valley start-up hub
Devolved administration’s incubator programme for burgeoning digital firms has established its first base in the