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Home Office seeks trio of £100k-plus leaders to support police tech transformation Scottish body flags ‘significant challenge and huge promise’ of AI NHS preps major tech programme to ‘transform patient, public and staff-facing services’ DSIT and DESNZ IT unit signs £7.5m laptop deal MPs urge creation of national body to combat disinformation HMRC lifts lid on £1bn-plus programme to ‘create a generational shift in customer service’ with single taxpayer view Parliament retires Covid-era app for members’ participation Lloyds group advises MPs that half a million were impacted by data breach

Features

13 Minutes
Features Highlights

Digital ID consultation: Bad news for ‘annoying people’, good news for future governments – and five other things we learned

Sam Trendall March 12, 2026
A Downing Street event this week marked the start of a key stage in the government’s plans for a new formal digital identity. PublicTechnology went along to find out more. […]...
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Secret clouds, returnship schemes and machine-readable spend data – what’s in government’s digital roadmap?

January 23, 2026

What is the cost of DWP’s UC anti-fraud algorithm?

January 21, 2026

Identity politics: What do we know so far about government’s digital ID plans?

December 30, 2025

‘Outages are a wake-up call to know your clouds and ask if you built them right’

December 11, 2025

Opinion

5 Minutes
Highlights Opinion Public order, justice and rights

AI in the justice system must promote legitimacy, not just productivity

March 25, 2026

Falling is inevitable, but learning is a design choice

March 19, 2026

Government should lead by example on professional standards for IT and digital

March 13, 2026

Does transformation need a transformation?

March 10, 2026

FOI is arming cyberattackers – here is how to fix it

February 17, 2026