GDS launches passport-checking verification scheme for commercial services
Year-long pilot will include up to 11 firms
‘The civil service needs to modernise’ – departing Whitehall chief urges officials to engage with ‘substance’ of Cummings reform plans
Mark Sedwill says equipping government with ‘more expertise… is a good thing’
Government seeks support with multimillion-pound online immigration services programme
Home Office floats £10m deal
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London university hosts online examinations with many other institutions set to follow suit
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MoJ minister reveals program will gather info on use of rigid handcuffs and other tools
NHS launches online ‘isolation notes’ service for employees
Those unable to attend work will be able to obtain evidence via website or 111 service
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Emergency law to provide for digitisation of death registration and video courtrooms
The incoming coronavirus bill aims to allow for more measures to be taken remotely
Civil service head: ‘We will have to adapt the way we work’
Sir Mark Sedwill says departments will be given advice on working arrangements
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Ministry of Defence to explore use of ‘telexistence’
Department seeks to better understand audiovisual, robotic and haptic technologies
Drone deliveries and journey-planning apps to be trialled in £90m programme
Government to test out innovations in three ‘future transport zones’
HMRC encourages remaining paper users to move to digital tax returns
Department to stop automatically sending out hard-copy forms to those who used them in the previous year
Government launches digital tool for firms to report energy data
Service will allow users to submit information via XBRL
All-lane smart motorways show boost in average speeds
Data suggests that the removal of a hard shoulder brings a higher miles per hour rate, but concerns over safety remain
DWP seeks to ‘transform’ retirement and pension services
Department seeks partner to fulfil potential two-year programme of work
Digitising the Natural History Museum and boosting HMRC IT – fourteen tech takeaways from the Budget
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a range of funding and new programmes dedicated to digital, data and technology
NHS app adopted by just 0.4% of eligible population in first year
More than 90% of GP-registered citizens cannot currently access their medical records online
Home Office audits IT systems to help set tech priorities
Department seeks supplier to support potential six-month investigation
DCMS to examine government data-sharing barriers ahead of programme of ‘radical and transformative change’
Department to explore ‘merits of a mandatory approach’ across Whitehall
Budget to bring bumper £5bn boost for broadband
Chancellor set to unveil huge investment
Defence committee launches probe into Huawei and 5G security
MPs will consider issues including whether it is possible to separate peripheral and sensitive parts of networks
Building Brexit-ready systems cost government £1.5bn
NAO report finds that new IT platforms and other infrastructure required a 10-figure investment