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HMRC and Home Office the big winners as spending review commits £600m to ‘fix outdated government IT’
Document also outlines projection of extra £700m revenue from digital taxation regime
Defence contractor BAE awarded £4.3m deal to support Test and Trace data processing
Company’s Applied Intelligence tech consulting unit wins six-month contract
Whitehall chief praises progress on border systems and data but admits disruption is ‘inevitable’
Alex Chisholm says he is ‘confident’ of meeting deadlines but that significant risks remain
New law allows government to fine networks flouting Huawei ban £100,000 a day
Ofcom will be given additional powers under new legislation
Scottish Government investment bank puts £12.5m into Glaswegian laser firm
New national institution puts money into tech start-up
‘This year has really made the case for what we’re trying to do’
At the end of a challenging year, local government chiefs discuss the impact on digital and data
Scottish care homes to be equipped with iPads
Public funding of £1m will support two devices in every care home
Government to create ‘trust framework’ of standards for digital identities
Minister says input will be welcomed from all stakeholders
NHS 111 service struggled with demand from north-west callers last month
More than a quarter of callers in region hung up on telephone advice service while three in four queries were not answered within a minute
ICO alerted after DWP publishes personal data of 6,000 benefit claimants
Department claims that ‘no-one can be identified’ from information published
Software contractor jailed for exposing Top Secret military information
Former civil servant given 52-month custodial sentence
Government explores creation of in-house ‘Crown Consultancy’
Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew reportedly leading project
Brexit will mean data is ‘not inappropriately constrained’, minister says
Data minister John Whittingdale says government hopes for agreement with EU, but organisations should prepare for no deal
HMRC keeps digital users happy as fewer people phone
Department says long call waiting times resulted from staff moving to work on coronavirus support schemes
NHS Digital uses Australian terminology to boost clinical data-sharing
Deal for terminology server will map clinical codes to international standards
HMRC to bring together text, voice and email communications in £10m contract
Tax agency seeks to replace patchwork of suppliers with a single provider
Regulator calls for government transparency on coronavirus data
Authorities should publish information used to inform policy, stats watchdog urges
Camera clampdown catches 10,000 tailgaters
Technology trial run by Highways England shows signs of success
NHS Covid app issue saw users only notified when exposed to virus five times longer than planned – report
An update that intended to alert users spending only a few minutes in proximity to a highly infectious person never took effect
Marriott to pay £18.4m ICO fine over cyberattack that affected 339 million records
Penalty is 82% lower than was originally intended
NHS ‘improves accuracy’ of contact-tracing app as downloads near 20 million
Update will end ‘ghost notifications’, government claims