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Agency’s dedicated data-science facility looks to make a big contribution to government’s response to rising costs

Two-year programme of work will encompass new digital platforms and enhancements of existing tools

Agency to establish ‘electronic link’ with department, minister claims

Central department stresses importance of ‘highest standards’, given its role in ensuring others’ compliance with regulation

All benefit claimants will be moved over to unified system by the end of 2024

Despite the best efforts of some ministers, the profound changes brought about by the pandemic still offer a singular opportunity to radically rethink how the civil service operates. Dods Research asked more than 200 officials for their thoughts.

The Declaration on Government Reform could be another failed opportunity, a think tank has warned

Consultancy will support data flows and booking platforms

Consultancy will support work to deliver Technology Sourcing Programme, which aims to revamp IT procurement

Only one in five currently uses software as part of their bookkeeping set-up

Chosen applicant will have oversight of major digital and data programmes

Almost three in five firms picked for procurement vehicle are considered SMEs

Junior minister becomes the 12th parliamentarian in less than seven years to oversee digital government initiatives

The government has been criticised for the time it is taking to match refugees with sponsors – who have been targeted by scams while trying to find their own matches

Tom Read tells PublicTechnology Live about GDS’s plans to drive transformation into its second decade, and how the agency’s future priorities were informed by its peers in Ukraine

HMPPS cites need to eliminate need to provide data to ageing platforms

Leader of graduate recruitment programme tells PublicTechnology Live that civil servants will soon require technical skills and understanding to progress senior officialdom

Report from Public Accounts Committee calls for Cabinet Office to set out plan to improve availability, quality and use of information 

Tax agency awards contracts for support, decommissioning, disaggregation and modernisation of systems for income tax, National Insurance and other core applications

Ministers believe measures such as digitisation, shared services, and reducing use of consultants could help cut waste

Digital, data and technology are ‘integral’ to new system of setting out priorities and measuring performance