
Local and central government back £2.5m investment in Glasgow IoT
Public and private partners have put funding into a major new facility which aims to

Sussex NHS trust recovers from ‘critical incident’ after weekend IT outage
Technology problems saw ambulances diverted away from two hospitals and patients advised to travel only

DBT becomes latest department to take advantage of AWS discount deal with £13m contract
The cloud services giant recently put in place the second iteration of its One Government

Digital and AI could become ‘the institutional memory of departments’, minister claims
Growing use of automation and digital technology could shoulder the burden of tackling fraud, while

MoD looks to identify cyber weak spots with £2.5m bug-bounty deal
The Ministry of Defence – which first used such reward programmes to find weaknesses in

MoD has 11 legacy systems at ‘critical level of risk’
Disclosures from a range of departments reveal that other organisations with multiple systems rated red

DWP hopes tuned-up online service will speed up applications for disabled in-work support benefit
Minister claims that department is gathering info on improved digital tool for processing Access to

‘Consistently more accurate than humans’ – Cabinet Office algorithm helps sort and delete millions of files
Central department releases transparency info with details of automated tool that is being used by

Officials, union and Post Office were ‘all lying to me’ on Horizon – Ed Davey
The current Liberal Democrat leader – and formerly a minister with responsibility for the Post

Watchdog plans digital flight-booking tool to support crisis repatriation
Civil Aviation Authority is looking to work with travel companies to create a site with

Horizon scandal: Calls grow for Fujitsu procurement suspension
MPs from across the house have expressed incredulity that major contracts have been awarded to

Scottish officials given new rules for bank-card spending
After an audit process, the Scottish Government has announced that guidelines for purchases made using

Cabinet Office seeks design chief to support departments deliver shared services plan
Central department advertises role offering salary of up to £118k and remit to work with

DWP signs £5m deal to ‘refresh ageing infrastructure’ in datacentres
Organisation will work with tech supplier Computacenter over course of three year contract, during which

Scottish police log first cases involving 3D-printed guns
Forces in Argyll and West Dunbartonshire and Tayside seized homemade weapons for the first time

Twitter signs ‘ministerial intelligence’ deal to analyse posts by potential government hires
Outline of commercial engagement with DHSC suggests that social networking site will provide ministers with

NHS data platform: Questions raised over Palantir ‘influencer’ campaign
Health service is reportedly investigating whether terms of potential £480m IT deal may have been

Stats regulator investigating Sunak’s asylum backlog claims
Following criticism from politicians and civil society, the Office for Statistics Regulation is investigating Rishi