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‘A big problem’ – HMRC scans IT systems for hundreds of thousands of women affected by potential £1.5bn pension gap

Department seeks data on child benefit claimants during the two decades leading up to 2000

AI Safety Summit: Major nations sign cooperation agreement recognising technology’s ‘potential for catastrophic harm’

PM Rishi Sunak calls declaration a ‘landmark achievement’, but tech billionaire airs concerns that governments

MPs to probe cyber defences of critical infrastructure

Parliament’s science and tech committee has announced a new inquiry to examine the current resilience

NHS drops extra £125k on security support deal after ‘unforeseen cyber incidents’

Health service reveals it has extended engagement with Deloitte – and delayed the tender for

Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk to talk AI in online event

PM to join controversial tech billionaire for conversation hosted on the latter’s X platform, in

Government graduate scheme now more than 50% STEM

Minister reveals that Civil Service Fast Stream target for recruits from science, technology, engineering and

MPs urge better use of people data to create ‘transparency and efficiency improvements within government’

A report from parliament’s Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee finds that information from the

PM’s Whitehall chief ‘cannot recall’ why he turned on disappearing WhatsApps during pandemic

The ongoing public inquiry this week heard evidence from the former principal private secretary to

Departments’ online services must hit 80% digitisation and user satisfaction to meet ‘great’ standard

Transformation roadmap published last year set a target for two thirds of the 75 services

Government spent £8m on aborted disqualification cases against Carillion non-execs

Three directors of the fallen outsourcing and construction firm have been barred, but minister reveals

Report urges ‘significant reform’ of Scottish public services and better workforce data

Auditors acknowledge digital transformation plans, but warns that these will take time to bear fruit

DWP Personal Independence Payment tribunal decisions stored as ‘digital images’ on casework system

Departmental minister claims that assessors from Atos and Capita have access to case details, but

Financial Conduct Authority signs £675m digital services framework

The UK’s financial regulator has appointed a total of 62 suppliers to a four-year procurement

Auditors question government’s £8bn efficiency savings calculations

Report published by the National Audit Office claims that billions of pounds of savings reported

HMRC adds 565 civil servants with ‘skills in short supply’ after dissolution of in-house IT provider RCDTS

Almost three quarters of former tech company’s employees have formally joined tax agency – with

Sopra Steria pays £82m to buy Cabinet Office out of shared-services joint venture

Department will reinvest £57m into government productivity and streamlining programmes – as well as returning

Terrorism: Government keeping tabs on potential for radicalising chatbots, minister says

Tom Tugendhat claims that the Home Office ‘engages regularly’ with companies creating artificial intelligence tools,
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