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Ahead of the 1 October deadline, a growing band of trusts have gone fully electronic – but overall utilisation rate is still at 70%

Examiners will swap clipboards for iPads and use a digital tool for marking, as part of a wider DVSA transformation programme

Supplier feedback sought on possible creation of new publishing system for parliament’s official record

Legislation will punish offenders with a fine of no maximum value

GPs across England to get tool to help direct patients to hospitals with sufficient capacity

Alice Lawson from South Australia Housing Trust discusses how housing providers can better target their resources and design citizen-centric services

As long-term outsourcing arrangement is phased out, authority looks to engage with wide array of new suppliers

Countries also sign cyber cooperation pledge

Report from MPs says that, a year on from the cyberattack, government and the NHS must now take action

Select committee claims opening up public data could 'curb power of tech giants'

Supplier sought for project to develop NELSON tool

Statistics agency appeals from charity and private sector in promoting digital inclusion

Select committee repeats request to stop sharing with the Home Office the name and address of suspected immigration offenders, but NHS Digital insists arrangement is ‘in the public interest’

Department recruits for leader of newly created unit dedicated to leading the data policy agenda

Peter Ford of Pegasytems believes Whitehall has both the necessary will and technology to achieve its ambitions of operating as a single entity

Local police will also receive funding for training and the establishment of dedicated online crime units

Culture secretary talks to executives from embattled internet firm in London in 'robust but constructive' meeting

The technical director of the National Cyber Security Centre tells PublicTechnology about the organisation’s achievements so far, and what it is doing to prepare for an inevitable cyber emergency

As an ever-greater volume of increasingly sophisticated devices watch us all, PublicTechnology talks to regulator Tony Porter about his office’s role in ensuring surveillance is always used ‘proportionately and sensitively’

Cybersecurity agency issues report looking forward to coming dangers and back at year in which DDoS and ransomware hogged the headlines

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham issues update acknowledging changes made by social network but stressing ‘it is too early to say whether they are sufficient under the law’