
FCDO signs £67m Microsoft licensing deal
Having previously worked directly with vendor, department responsible for foreign affairs enters into new agreement

Spending review: GDS to advise on in-house vs outsourcing options for digital programmes
Civil service chief operating officer Cat Little provides update to Public Accounts Committee outlining how

Reeves reveals £3bn ‘transformation fund’
In this week’s spring statement, the chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves outlined a programme

DWP ‘considering all modernisation options’ for Tell Us Once death-notification service
Suggested legislative amendments put forward by the House of Lords would require government to review

ICO issues £3m fine to NHS IT provider Advanced over 2022 data breach
Having previously indicated its intention to enforce a £6m penalty, the regulator for data protection

First Scottish hospitals equipped with digital self-triage tools
NHS Lanarkshire has become the first health board in Scotland to deploy the technology which

Cost of HMRC Single Customs Platform more than doubled to £570m
In the past year, SCP scheme, which intends to deliver ‘critical improvements’ to the UK’s

GDS seeks GOV.UK content chief to oversee 10,000 pages of info
Whitehall’s digital unit is advertising a vacant posting managing content across the government’s online estate,

ONS asserts objectivity as report suggests ‘partisan climate on certain issues’
Office for National Statistics says that it has always ‘listened impartially and objectively to all

HMCTS wraps up ‘quiet revolution’ of £1.3bn digital reform programme
After concluding a project that, since 2016, has delivered major investment in new technology, the

MoD signs £1.5m deal for ‘cyber adversary simulation’
Defence department has this month signed a deal until 2028, becoming the latest government agency

Digital system to allow Treasury to track departments’ spending in real time
Government’s central finance agency has revealed plans to replace existing processes in which it gathers

DfT plans major National Transport Analysis Platform to help design policy
The department has alerted potential providers to its intention to create a £500k new modelling

Defra appoints two former top tech execs to boardroom set-up
The environment department has announced the addition of two new non-execs: a pair of senior

Ex-DWP digital chief Corbridge apologises after breach of appointment rules
Having taken a CIO post at property investment outfit Segro, the former tech official’s new

HMRC seeks £500m ‘hyperscaler’ for 10-year datacentre-exit deal
The UK tax agency has issued an early commercial notice outlining its intent to award

‘Highly capable, mobile, dexterous and autonomous’ – policymakers equipped with guide to humanoids
The latest advice document in a range of guidelines for those looking to get up

Small-scale tech purchases via 20,000 procurement cards blocked
Thousands of cards that can be used by civil servants to make singular purchases of