Brexit: Home Office proceeds with work on platform to share policing alerts
Multimillion-pound system is intended to mitigate the loss of access to pan-European SIS security database
Contact tracing: ‘Not possible’ to know how many have enabled NHS Covid-19 app
Senior officials say they cannot ‘make a reliable and consistent calculation’
Could wearable tech for soldiers ‘predict injuries before they occur’?
Funding scheme offers £200,000 to support testing of proposals
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‘Fundamental flaws’ – opponents urge Scottish Government to revamp and delay vaccine status programme
Call from Conservative party comes after app has been dogged by technical problems
Government guidance encourages use of instant messaging rather than email for ‘routine communications’
Documents released to High Court reveal civil servants are told to switch message history off where possible
Courts service to expand support for digitally excluded in £10m scheme
Users to be given additional help using online services
‘A country with world-class data analysis expertise should not have faced this crisis with virtually no data’
Parliamentary report on the lessons learned from the response to the coronavirus pandemic finds ‘major deficiencies in the machinery of government’
Coronavirus response: DHSC signs £1.8m deal with O2 for population-movement data
Network operator can provide information on the location of about one in three of the UK population
‘Drivel’ – Duncan Smith’s anti-homeworking tirade gets short shrift
In newspaper column invoking the Blitz, ex-Tory leader becomes latest senior politician to rail against officials working remotely
NCSC warns organisations: ‘You cannot perform all functions securely with just BYOD’
National cyber body updates guidance on use of employee-owned technology – a practice which proliferated during the pandemic
HMRC signs £5m cloud-migration deal with Microsoft
Deal covers cloud platforms, consultancy, and cyber tools
Regulator urges government to ‘cement statistical successes of the pandemic’
The coronavirus crisis prompted ‘unprecedented public engagement’ with data, but also highlighted the challenges facing authorities
Welsh Covid pass green-lighted by one vote after member ‘unable to vote due to IT challenges’
Programme will be introduced after parliament approved motion by 28 votes to 27
Electoral Commission seeks CEO to help keep pace with ‘digital revolution’
Regulator recruits for leader to support ‘change and improvement’
HMRC begins asking staff back to offices
Officials will continue to work from home for an average of four days a week to begin with
‘An information advantage against adversaries’ – MoD signs £16.6m deal for battlefield apps
Department picks PA Consulting for 18-month deal
Dowden implores civil servants to ‘get back to their desks’
Ministerial criticisms of remote working labelled ‘insulting’
DCMS seeks leader for smart device security policy team
Role comes with remit to support regulation and engage with industry
Government to spend £183m doubling number of electronically tagged offenders
By 2025 more than 25,000 people will be tagged with devices tracking their movements and, in some cases, alcohol consumption
Suppliers bidding for top Whitehall deals required to commit to net zero by 2050
New guidelines will ask companies to disclose emissions stemming from indirect factors such as routes to market and staff commuting
Scottish vaccine status app: Sturgeon cites ‘NHS system error’
First minister fends off continued criticism from political rivals
NHS Digital takes over cancer patient database
Service gathering data on diseases and congenital anomalies has been moved over from the now-defunct Public Health England
Head of spending watchdog: ‘The need to act fast did not give licence to act fast and loose on procurement’
PAC chair says that MPs on the committee will continue to challenge government on its award of contracts
RAF offers £125k for digital and IT leader
CDIO will be responsible for promoting interoperability and use of data