
Mental-health services to be added to NHS App as part of digital expansion
Minister claims government hopes to ensure ‘support from day one’ Credit: Pexels/Pixabay The NHS App will

MPs ask HMRC for answers over summer helpline closure
Chair of Treasury committee expresses concern about impact on citizens and lack of notice Credit: andreas160578/Pixabay

ICO examines use of personal data in government anti-disinformation work
Data watchdog says it will be asking questions of departments following ‘information that has now

Major ‘productivity review’ to look for public sector tech opportunities
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt launches scrutiny exercise Credit: Arek Socha/Pixabay Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has ordered a cross-government

Home Office signs £23m software support deal for key immigration system database
Contract covers the delivery of increased internal capability for department Credit: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence

Data ‘likely’ stolen in Manchester University cyberattack
Institution is ‘monitoring the dark web’ to see if copied data turns up Credit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay

Report warns on £1.5bn extra customer costs for Making Tax Digital and millions of records on HMRC legacy systems
National Audit Office says that tax agency needs to prepare a new business case or

Sunak and Biden agree transatlantic data bridge
Leaders announce agreed-in-principle initiative as part of trade partnership Credit: Crown Copyright/Open Government Licence v3.0 Prime

AI laws must ‘support businesses while protecting citizens’, Scottish minister says
Richard Lochhead – who has requested an urgent pan-UK meeting – believes government should avoid

Data watchdog urges against further FoI exemptions
Information commissioner warns MPs of risks of absolving agencies of transparency requirements Credit: Arek Socha/Pixabay Information commissioner

Scottish parliamentarians sign up for service to track online personal threats
Tool will run on a trial basis for a year Credit: councilcle/Pixabay The Scottish Parliament will

Ministers pledge to remove Chinese tech from government sites
Move comes alongside plan to create national security-focused procurement team Credit: Vitor Dutra Kaosnoff/Pixabay Ministers have

Cabinet Office invests in £300k software tool to get a handle on tech estate
Platform is intended to enable technologists and business leaders to better understand risks, gaps and

Digital minister pledges to reverse decline in departments’ DDaT apprenticeships
Alex Burghart claims that numbers have already begun to rise following reported 20% drop in

Home Office preps Plan B to ensure continuity of UK police database
Department says that work to deliver replacement of 50-year-old system is on track but that it is

Digital has taken root at DLUHC, says former chief
Paul Maltby says department’s approach has helped empower councils Credit: Eko Pramono/Pixabay The recently departed digital

New laws to protect smart doorbells and other gadgets are world-first, minister claims
Paul Scully pledges that provisions are being made for imminent implementation of act New laws

MoD begins work on IT system to register and track evacuees from crisis zones
Ministry reveals it has begun work on concept phase of potential software tool to manage