Digital, Data & Technology

Department is contacting businesses to encourage early enrolment ahead of use becoming mandatory in August

“This role is critical to our transformation as a department servicing around 20 million citizens each year,” according to the job advert.

EU citizens working in the NHS and higher education sectors can now apply for settled status in the UK – but those with an iPhone could face a long journey if they wish to do so

Union voices anger that Disclosure and Barring Service project will not be brought back in-house

The department has on multiple occasions been forced to deny that it might abandon the project as progress has stalled

Owen said she had been proud to lead the expansion of the department to take responsibility for policy areas including digital

House of Lords select committee says department is “not listening to small businesses”

Loughborough centre will join new Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham bases from next year

Watchdog says rapid timescale lacked “economic assessment of its implications”, ramping programme’s complexity and cost

Senior manager will develop data sharing tools and practices

Role of government’s central digital team is evolving but central oversight is still required on policies such as IT disaggregation, minister tells PublicTechnology

Cabinet Office admits its initial bid to fill “probably the biggest and most important security job in the UK today” was "unsuccessful"

Rob Thompson takes position as department’s technology leader after four years at DWP

Treasury guidance encourages departments to offer “unreasonable certainty in timelines, costs and benefits”, IfG report finds

DCMS response to select committee report reveals move to tackle online manipulation by creating agreed definitions of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ 

National Cyber Security Centre annual report reveals it has dealt with 1,100 cyber attacks in its first two years

Penelope Endersby becomes agency’s first female boss seven months after Rob Varley quits

Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells CSW's sister title PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector

Five of the service’s seven existing commercial partners will assume responsibility for the product

Consultation analysis underscores weight of organised opposition to Cameron-era proposals ditched by May regime

PAC chair Meg Hillier says department has “very serious questions” to answer over delayed rollout of emergency communications system

New digital services will help Defra protect against environmental hazards and improve communication, it said

But think tank warns the needs of staff rather than new technology should drive change

Mayank Prakash, who was named CIO of the year in 2016, set to return to the private sector