Policy
MoJ convenes top judges and experts to develop rules for online court proceedings
New committee created to help advise participants in court cases
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...
Braverman proposes surveillance law update to give authorities more sway over telecoms firms
Tweaks to Investigatory Powers Act could require companies to provide data even before appeals...
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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
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology made up of 800 DCMS staffers and 935 from BEIS
Minister reveals that newly created department is still working on employee transfers
NHS app: Local bodies required to offer patients choice of treatment providers
Citizens will be presented with details of five or more hospitals or other options
Digital minister: ‘It’s important to the government that the British public has confidence in how we use their data’
In a piece written for PublicTechnology, parliamentary secretary Alex Burghart discusses progress with One Login and the significance of legislative changes
Interview: CDDO chief Lee Devlin on the ‘move from being disruptive to collaborative’
In the first of a series of exclusive interviews, the head of government’s ‘Digital HQ’ talks to PublicTechnology about the Central Digital and Data Office’s work to unlock £8bn of digital investment, engage with departmental leaders, and deliver definitively great services
HMRC finds strong support for online Child Benefit claims – but ‘digital by default’ would cause problems for one in five users
Department publishes findings of study conducted ahead of planned digitisation initiative
Government urged to update product safety standards for internet age
Parliamentary committee laments pace of progress so far in changing rules
Glasgow college looks to recruit students via TikTok
Institution creates video-based ‘ProspectToks’ – just weeks after social app was banned from all Scottish Government devices
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
UK has potential to be cyber ‘world leader’, report finds
Think tank study praise ‘whole-of-society approach’ to policy but encourages development of specialist workforce
Government full FoI responses fall below 40% for first time
Treasury, Defra, Foreign Office, DLUHC and Cabinet Office each provided all requested information to no more than a quarter of inquiries
MPs press Treasury on source of funding for £400m buyout of satellite firm
Committee chief claims that government has refused to answer or otherwise dodged questions about OneWeb purchase
Government offers £100k for NHS digital policy chief
Leader sought for joint DHSC-NHS team dedicated to tech and data
HMRC launches £140m procurement to support comms digitisation
Five-year contract will cover all incoming and outgoing messages and ambition to operate in ‘similar ways to leading private sector companies’
Government formally unveils annual independent cyber audits for all departments
Ministerial announcement follows initial examinations of Home Office and business department earlier this year
Government should publish user research for the public good
Departments now possess vast volumes of data on citizens' experiences of digital services and should make this information publicly available, according to Joe Tomlinson from the University of York
Government recruitment regulator in talks over greater independence
Civil Service Commission wishes to create distance from the Cabinet Office – which it has found to be one of government’s biggest rule-breakers in recent years
EXCL: Cabinet Office launches £12m project to move all data and users from Google to Microsoft
Department to develop single internal infrastructure that will replace two incumbent platforms
WhatsApp and private email banned for government use at higher security tiers
Officials are warned that, if they choose to use non-corporate channels, they must 'be prepared to defend your choices'
Minister opens Horizon talks as tech industry leans on government to ensure membership of EU scheme
Technology secretary of state visits Brussels to discuss possible associate membership