Minister lauds CCS among ‘highest-performing parts of government’ after £3bn savings in FY22
Procurement agency saw £27.6bn spent through its agreements in the last fiscal year, including £2.2bn directly with SMEs
Legacy costs take spending on digital border programme to £700m
But Home Office clams there ‘has been no increase or acceleration’ in underlying cost of scheme...
Edinburgh seeks £12m support for digital inclusion and growth projects
Local authority makes bid for funding from central government
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Report crowns Manchester top UK hotspot for tech start-ups
City is the best place outside London to start a technology business, study finds
NHS Digital and NHSX to be merged into NHS England
Leaders of technology units say that subsumption will accelerate transformation and enable consistent messaging
‘Work from home where possible’ – Northern Ireland updates Covid advice
Ministers issue statement aimed at ‘strengthening the message’ on mitigations for virus transmission as winter looms
GOV.UK login system received £100m funding in Spending Review
Head of Central Digital and Data Office says that her team worked closely with Treasury colleagues to ensure tech initiatives were supported by funding round
UK digital minister joins counterparts in agreement for ‘sustainable and inclusive innovation’
Joint statement from 10 governments pledges cooperation in delivering transformation objectives
Government says tech will help reach aviation net zero as data shows Sunak flew London to Birmingham and back in a day
Junior minister says that private flights can sometimes ‘provide better value for money’
‘Simply unacceptable’ – MPs slam DWP over £8bn in benefit fraud during pandemic
But government maintains that fraud and error remain rare
Cabinet Office taps LinkedIn to help fill ‘specialist’ digital and leadership roles in £600k deal
GDS will be the main beneficiary of the central department’s purchase of software and support from professional social network
Government plans to add booster dose to digital NHS Covid Pass, PM pledges
Boris Johnson tells nation that ‘we will have to adjust our concept of what constitutes a full vaccination’
Courts IT system threatens thousands of jobs, union warns
PCS believes digital case-management system is not fit for purpose
NHS Delivery Unit to analyse data in bid to cut waiting lists
Newly established function comes on top of investment in digital diagnostics as government seeks to get record waiting lists under control
How DWP hired 13,500 new work coaches – without meeting a single one
Faced with a Herculean hiring drive as coronavirus restrictions took hold, the department could not recruit candidates in the usual ways. PublicTechnology finds out it what did instead.
UK export credit agency offers up to £130k for digital head
Newly created role comes with remit to create digital strategy and lead 90 staff
Recruitment firm handed £18,750 to find ‘highly specialist’ UK cyber ambassador
DIT seeks candidate to promote work of UK security firms
Calls for procurement ‘Domesday Book’ of government supply deals
Repository of contracts would increase transparency, according to TUC leader
Union calls for new laws after report finds public servants’ concern over snooping tech
Studies finds more than a third of public sector workers are conscious of being monitored at home
Brexit: Border systems and processes still need ‘much more work’, says NAO report
Auditors’ assessment praises work that has taken place so far but warns of ongoing threats to successful delivery
Authorities investigate Labour cyberattack that impacted ‘significant quantity’ of supporters’ data
NCA probes incident in which personal info of members and supported may have been breached
Criticism of spending on Covid schemes ‘slightly unfair’ – Sunak
Chancellor appears before MPs to answer questions about value for money and efficacy of programmes include Test and Trace and the furlough scheme
Military innovation unit seeks to improve diversity in STEM hiring spree
Dstl undertakes ‘positive action’ to attract candidates from under-represented backgrounds
Will DDaT professionals be considered ‘frontline’ during planned Whitehall job cuts?
The Spending Review revealed an intention to reduce the number of ‘non-frontline’ civil servants back to pre-pandemic levels – but the Treasury is yet to define how such a distinction will be made