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Interview: MoJ leader on how digital can support reform and rehabilitation

September 2, 2025

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Data ownership, shadow AI and One Login expansion: Five things we learned at the Socitm President’s Conference

August 27, 2025

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DVSA awards £73m contract for new Driver Services Platform

September 2, 2025

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency selects existing partner Kainos for four-year contract to deliver new platform for booking driving tests, promising to learn from long waiting times with current system […]...

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Government and politics News

Government needs to go ‘further and faster’ on information security improvements

September 2, 2025

Cabinet Office has published previously secret 2023 review of data security, as well as a response from the Information Commissioner, following disclosure of MoD data breach on 18,000 Afghans seeking […]...

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News Science, technology and research

Copilot saves staff time but does not improve productivity, DBT pilot finds

September 2, 2025

A trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot by the Department for Business and Trade has found that those undertaking written work made the largest time savings, but that other tasks took […]...

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Business and industry News

HMRC chooses Public Digital for £14m strategy and delivery contract

September 1, 2025

HM Revenue and Customs set to award deal to consultancy founded by former Government Digital Service head Mike Bracken, who advised Labour on department’s transformation, then served as a director […]...

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News Transport

Two train companies trial GPS-based pay as you go ticketing

September 1, 2025

East Midlands Rail and Northern Rail seek 4,000 volunteers for government-funded trail of system that uses mobile app and GPS locations to charge based on lowest on-the-day prices for journeys […]...

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Charity Commission plans £9.5m digital transformation programme

August 29, 2025

Commission’s three-year programme set to include improving online services for trustees, reviewing collection and use of data, better targeting of advice and regulation and easier public access to charity data […]...

2 Minutes

News Public order, justice and rights

CPS pilots use of generative AI to write first drafts of correspondence

August 29, 2025

Crown Prosecution Service introduces Correspondence Drafting Tool that uses Microsoft OpenAI’s GPT4 large language model to produce initial drafts of letters and emails, with trained staff then reviewing and editing […]...

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DVSA awards £73m contract for new Driver Services Platform

September 2, 2025

Government needs to go ‘further and faster’ on information security improvements

September 2, 2025

Copilot saves staff time but does not improve productivity, DBT pilot finds

September 2, 2025

Interview: MoJ leader on how digital can support reform and rehabilitation

September 2, 2025

HMRC chooses Public Digital for £14m strategy and delivery contract

September 1, 2025

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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 […]...

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

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7 Minutes

Education and skills Opinion

How NISTA can drive sustained transformation

September 1, 2025

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

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Economics and finance News

Trade department signs £3.5m deals to boost tech maturity and identify vulnerabilities

Sam Trendall July 31, 2025

DBT has put in place two agreements with major reseller SCC intended to provide greater rigour to assessing its current tech estate and picking out potential security risks going forward […]...

4 Minutes

News Society and welfare

DWP deploys AI to predict parents that might default on Child Maintenance

Sam Trendall July 30, 2025

The department has trained a machine learning system on thousands of cases to identify and flag characteristics considered as significant indicators of the risk of payment cessation, PublicTechnology can reveal […]...

3 Minutes

Economics and finance News

HM Land Registry seeks £72m digital and data partners to deliver ‘radical, permanent changes’

Sam Trendall July 30, 2025

The government department responsible for overseeing housebuying and administering the national register of millions of property titles is engaged in a major transformation agenda and wishes to identify tech providers […]...

2 Minutes

Business and industry News

New Companies House CEO Andy King to ‘advance change programme’

Sam Trendall July 30, 2025

After moving from his current post in the Ministry of Defence, the incoming boss of the national business register will continue to pursue transformation efforts undertaken by predecessor Louise Smyth […]...

2 Minutes

News Society and welfare

Age-estimating AI face scans could be ‘fully integrated’ into asylum and immigration processes next year

Sam Trendall July 29, 2025

Ministers have revealed that, following extensive review of possible options, border operations will soon begin trials of automated tools that government believes can accurately, quickly, and cheaply estimate someone’s age […]...

2 Minutes

Business and industry News

G-Cloud 14 extended to October 2026 to give time to prep replacement

Sam Trendall July 29, 2025

Documents issued by Whitehall’s procurement agency reveal that the current iteration of government’s core commercial vehicle for buying cloud hosting and support will remain in place for six further months […]...

2 Minutes

Business and industry News

Scottish Government unveils National Innovation Week

Sofia Villegas July 29, 2025

Event to be held in September will convene public and private sector representatives and will focus on quartet of areas picked out in national strategy, which includes digital and data […]...

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Education and skills News

Innovation requires ‘forgiving us when we do the wrong thing when trying something new’ – DWP boss

Sam Trendall July 28, 2025

Department’s permanent secretary Sir Peter Schofield tells committee of MPs that the pandemic cultivated bold new ideas for several reasons, including the diminished prospect of carrying the can for failure […]...

2 Minutes

Business and industry News

CCS to develop ‘new digital operating model’

Sam Trendall July 28, 2025

Whitehall procurement agency’s annual accounts reveal that business case for tech transformation initiative was signed off nine months ago, with work on initial assessments and recruitment of staff now begun […]...

4 Minutes

Education and skills News

Government commits £168m to data-linking work

Jim Dunton July 28, 2025

Non-departmental body is to extend a major project which has supported the use of data to better understand issues including reoffending, education outcomes, and the impact of alcohol pricing measures […]...

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