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Home Office breaches spending limits after opting against tech tool
Department chose not to deploy IT that could have detected breach due to its ‘complexity and cost’
China accused of ‘malicious cyberattacks’ on UK targets
Foreign secretary says he is ‘deeply concerned’ by arrest of two Chinese nationals
‘We are a British company with only British datacentres – and a commitment to pay our taxes’
UKCloud has joined the major cloud players in signing a public-sector wide agreement. The firm’s CEO Simon Hansford tells PublicTechnology why it’s important for government to have choice.
‘HMRC has risen to the challenge’ of coronavirus response, says CEO Harra
Tax agency head salutes colleagues’ work in building new platforms at speed
Responsibility for government data use returns to GDS
Group of policymakers to move from DCMS to form basis of new team
Civil servants asked to share government gripes
Ahead of technology- and data-led reforms, officials have been invited to vent their frustrations with how Whitehall works
Government agrees to provide councils with daily individual testing data
Move comes after calls from local authorities
Public sector cyber procurement quadruples in five years
PublicTechnology research shows a big spike in the number of contracts awarded to IT security specialists by public-sector buyers
Hancock to launch review of ‘misleading’ coronavirus death data, according to reports
Analysis posits that deaths may have been incorrectly attributed to Covid-19
Salaries of government technologists in same pay band differ by as much as £40,000
Report from NAO finds big disparities in Whitehall pay packets
CCS claims £1bn savings for public sector in FY20
Annual accounts show uplift in framework usage across both central government and the wider public sector
UK calls out Russia for ‘despicable’ cyberattacks on vaccine efforts
NCSC joins up with counterparts from US and Canada to attribute phishing and malware assaults to Kremlin-linked entities
UK export strategy hindered by data gaps
NAO report finds that Department for International Trade also needs to improve digital services
NHS suspends use of coronavirus test kits over ‘safety’ issue
Use of kits supplied by Randox has been paused ‘until further notice’
DWP to trial formal remote-working programme
Most department staff have remained onsite during pandemic, although some ‘ad hoc’ arrangements have been made
Coronavirus has shown Whitehall can avoid getting 'bogged down' in bureaucracy – civil service chief
Chief operating officer Alex Chisholm calls for 'experimentation and innovation'
UK 5G network faces three-year delay and £2bn extra cost as government confirms Huawei expulsion
The Chinese tech vendor’s kit will be removed entirely by 2027, digital secretary Oliver Dowden has announced
Minister believes government ‘likely’ to see return on £400m investment in satellite firm
Before entering bankruptcy OneWeb had been funded to the tune of $3.3bn with no revenues generated yet
Downing St assembles data science A-team
Dominic Cummings’ ambitions realised as prime minister’s office seeks to recruit crack squad of data scientists for No. 10 skunkworks
DWP told to ‘prioritise improvements to Universal Credit digital system’
Report from NAO finds that programme may end up costing more than the systems it replaced
NHS to press on with digital pathology work
Technology entities to continue exploration of standards