 
		HMRC spends £11m on deals for mobile airtime, laptops and network kit
Tax agency tops up its tech estate with a duo of contracts awarded to cover
            		 
		Election 2019: How a Stormzy tweet caused an ‘emergency conference on possible hostile foreign activity’
Efforts to closely monitor online services before the last general election enabled cyber chiefs to
            		 
		Academics tackle gender bias in healthcare AI
A project led by the University of Glasgow over 18 months will gather data from
            		 
		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
            		