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Features

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Features Science, technology and research

How departments are using data analytics to combat fraud

Jim Dunton July 31, 2025
PublicTechnology looks at case studies from a recent National Audit Office investigation into the publicsector’s ongoing efforts to halt billions of pounds in losses through fraud and error Fraud and […]...
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HMRC Transformation Roadmap: New citizen services, more revenue and ‘cultural change’ across department

July 23, 2025

What next for the GOV.UK App?

July 3, 2025

Spending Review: How are departments planning to use tech to save billions?

June 26, 2025

An unstoppable force or an immovable object? Leaders discuss departments’ work with government’s digital centre

June 4, 2025

Opinion

5 Minutes
Business and industry Highlights Opinion

Procurement should be a bridge, not a barrier, to local SMEs

July 11, 2025

Failing to secure public trust could derail government’s AI agenda

April 22, 2025

Local government leaders must give permission and support to digital colleagues to create the right future

April 16, 2025

AI tools will transform the policy profession for the better

February 27, 2025

AI isn’t scary: Lessons from Ealing Council

February 11, 2025
7 Minutes
Features Health and social care

The best medicine: How the MHRA is using AI to support scientists and thwart threats

Sam Trendall August 19, 2024 53 Comments on The best medicine: How the MHRA is using AI to support scientists and thwart threats
After tech helped the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency play a starring role in government’s coronavirus response, digital chief Claire Harrison tells PublicTechnology where the watchdog’s story went next […]...
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5 Minutes
News Society and welfare

DWP grows trials of generative AI and reports ‘no immediate concerns’ from fairness assessment of fraud algorithm

Sam Trendall August 16, 2024 106 Comments on DWP grows trials of generative AI and reports ‘no immediate concerns’ from fairness assessment of fraud algorithm
In its annual report, department makes good on a pledge to develop, undertake and reveal the outcome of a fairness analysis, but declines to provide detailed findings of the process […]...
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2 Minutes
International Relations News

FCDO deploys global consular system to ‘offer complete view of our interactions with a British national’

Sam Trendall August 15, 2024 135 Comments on FCDO deploys global consular system to ‘offer complete view of our interactions with a British national’
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office first announced three years ago its intention to roll out a new support platform for departmental staff working at diplomatic facilities around the globe […]...
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