MPs ask HMRC for answers over summer helpline closure
Chair of Treasury committee expresses concern about impact on citizens and lack of notice
Report warns on £1.5bn extra customer costs for Making Tax Digital and millions of records on HMRC legacy systems
National Audit Office says that tax agency needs to prepare a new business case or risk further...
AI laws must ‘support businesses while protecting citizens’, Scottish minister says
Richard Lochhead – who has requested an urgent pan-UK meeting – believes government should avoid...
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Sunak and Biden agree transatlantic data bridge
Leaders announced agreed-in-principle initiative as part of trade partnership
Ministers pledge to remove Chinese tech from government sites
Move comes alongside plan to create national security-focused procurement team
Home Office preps Plan B to ensure continuity of UK police database
Department says that work to deliver replacement of 50-year-old system is on track but that it is ‘prudent’ to create a contingency plan
Home Office anti-terror comms-interception unit hires £6m project managers to address ‘lack of skill set’
NCDS is currently engaged in ‘moving towards new ways of working’ to reflect legislative changes
Scottish minister warns on Westminster’s ‘hands-off’ approach to AI and requests urgent UK summit
Richard Lochhead compares technology to previous industrial revolutions and says government’s job is to minimise harms and spread opportunities
NHS unveils £1bn plan for primary-care digital deals including patient records and remote consultations
Potential providers invited to respond to early-engagement notice
DWP, Home Office, MoJ and Defra launch £1bn tender for shared services tech providers
Departments look to sign joint deal with a software provider and a system integrator
Ministry of Justice floats £200m opportunity for long-term WAN provider
Department seeks bids for seven-year contract as part of major programme to replace networks
UKCloud collapse caused ‘no unexpected service disruptions or cost to public purse’
Minister says that all public-sector customers have now moved to alternative provider
ONS seeks new data source on UK firms’ overseas owners
Statistics agency looks to establish a single unified partnership
‘Extremely concerned and disappointed’ – more councils caught up in Capita breach
Authorities have complained about the lack of time taken to be notified by IT firm and wrongly being told personal data was not put at risk
IPO announces two-year timeline for online patent service and digital hearings
Government agency publishes update on transformation plan
How Oxford University is using data to empower underrepresented groups in entrepreneurship
The question is not whether a diversity of talent exists, but how do we enable all to move forward in industry, according to Leah Thompson from the University of Oxford
Whitehall chief: ‘It’s difficult to overestimate the number of digital and data people we need to recruit’
Alex Chisholm reveals more than 2,000 DDaT professionals joined the civil service during a six-month period last year
Motorola removed from government strategic suppliers list following ESN exit
Company claims excision from roster of Whitehall's most significant commercial partners is a ‘routine update’
Government urged to update product safety standards for internet age
Parliamentary committee laments pace of progress so far in changing rules
Home Office signs £72m deal to develop and support all department’s apps
Atos wins three-year contract to assist with Shared Application Service
Whitehall shared-services implementation requires funding and focus, MPs warn
Public Accounts Committee warns that lack of support could imperil delivery
Cabinet Office to create online register of senior officials’ second jobs
Update to guidance sets out detailed requirements for agencies to disclose SCS members’ outside employment, which will be collated by central department
HMRC proposes expansion of powers for collecting data and accessing third-party IT systems
Consultation opened over potential legislative changes that would enable tax agency to access cloud storage facilities
‘Very beneficial – or very dangerous’: MPs warn of urgent need for AI regulation
Conservative and Labour MPs call for more focus from the top of government