As work continues on the imminent switch-off of the UK’s 30-year-old customs IT platform, many of its users believed that issues with government internal systems meant that they too were […]...
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Government taps Rightmove for parking data in £25k deal
Department for Transport signs contract with online property firm...
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Departments asked to set out additional savings – alongside growth plans
Agencies will be tasked with both identifying efficiencies and ways in which they can support chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ambitions to increase GDP...
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Covid contracts: PAC chair calls out use of procurement short-cuts
Meg Hillier claims that massive deals were awarded without competition as emergency measures were used for longer than required...
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DWP signs £2m data deal to better understand ‘citizen point of view’
Departmental analysts are working on a project to integrate data sets and derive new insights...
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More than 900 government roles relocated from London to Glasgow since 2020
Cabinet Office reveals senior positions in the fields of consultancy and counter-fraud are among those to have been moved north...
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‘These are fundamental to empowering individuals’ – ICO takes action against departments and councils over data requests
Ministry of Defence and Home Office are among those reprimanded over major backlogs that caused ‘significant distress’ to individuals. PublicTechnology finds out more....
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Watchdog censures former borders bigwig over government consultancy contract
Acoba finds that former senior official Glyn Smith breached appointment rules after returning to the Home Office as an independent advisor...
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Labour pledges creation of state-owned green energy provider
Leader Keir Starmer invokes party’s history of supporting technology and modernisation...
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HMRC lifts lid on £200m programme to achieve data-protection compliance
Recently released information provides details of three-year project to minimise risk and improve use of data...
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