Digital, Data & Technology

Minister reveals cost of building online service

Central digital agency looks for support with development, research, and management

Role as director of immigration technology comes with responsibility for 1,000 staff and a £120m budget

Home Office needs a “Plan B“ in case vital tech components aren't ready in time, says public spending watchdog

Citizens can now use biometrics to confirm payments

Department gets rid of data where it did not have ‘explicit consent’ of users

Kevin Cunnington believes the central agency should be leading on the ideas that will be of interest to departments in two years’ time

Creation of a cash strategy group led by the department will ensure the public still have a choice over how they spend their money, says chancellor

Department is to roll out ‘email or another form of secure digital channel’ to allow to the public to contact independent review entity

“I used to say to people when you come into the NSC you leave the politics at the door – and you leave your mobile phones at the door,” says ex-cab sec

Nigel Farage’s new party unveils former Office for National Statistics trade specialist as European Parliament hopeful

Former national security adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant says leaks may undermine effective decision making in the longer term

More than 12,000 pieces of government information can now be accessed via smart speaker

Conundrum highlights a dearth of investment in official statisticians' leadership skills, Royal Statistical Society head says

Department has put "strict controls on the use of bulk emails" after two data breaches, immigration minister Caroline Nokes says 

Home Office apologises for second data breach to come to light this week

Department reports itself to Information Commissioner after hundreds of potential victims’ email addresses are wrongly shared

Cabinet secretary admits he was "always uneasy" about the Home Office's overly ambitious ESN programme but insists it's not a failure

Data-enabled technologies can present "major ethical and practical challenges" for public bodies, committee chair Lord Evans says

More than 1,000 pieces of optical and radar data are now available under licence

Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation will look at how algorithms could reflect the biases of their developers

Report calls for 'complete rethink of the structure, funding and oversight of forensic science'

West Midlands, North East and London get document-scanning boost as settled status scheme prepares for full rollout at the end of this month

Current DG of Economic and Domestic secretariat in the Cabinet Office will replace Sue Owen at the start of next month