Test and Trace ‘scaling down’ use of consultants
Programme leader Dido Harding says use of outside help is being reduced although will continue to some extent
Government study reveals cyber sector kept growing through 2020
Revenue spiked 7% to £8.9bn, DCMS study reveals
Government considers role of technology in enforcing quarantine
Minister says mandating isolation is ‘right course of action’
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Seven in ten civil servants want to work from home at least three days a week
Survey conducted by FDA union finds 97% of officials want option of working remotely
Government shakes up digital leadership
Home Office tech chief Davinson appointed leader of newly created Central Digital and Data Office while Read arrives from MoJ to head up GDS
Government spends £87m on extra 460,000 laptops to support remote learning
Procurement documents show DfE awarded another deal to Computacenter in November
Cummings legacy little more than ‘rearranging some furniture’
Former head of NCSC Ciaran Martin believes that ‘war on Whitehall’ has ended – to minimal discernible effect
Government’s ‘litany of failures’ leaves citizens facing many years of slow broadband
Public Accounts Committee points to need for more funding and legislative changes
Innovative ideas invited for £25,000 Whitehall prize
Foundation set up in memory of late Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood seeks ideas for how to solve challenges created by coronavirus
Birmingham University signs 10-year £15m deal for online learning
Institution retains incumbent supplier on long-term contract
Scottish Tech Army supports computing scholarships
Initiative to be delivered in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University
HMRC sees 12% spike in complaints during FY21 as customer service issues continue
November stats show another spike in call-waiting times and new struggles with answering online and postal queries
Privately educated twice as likely to gain a spot on Whitehall graduate scheme, data suggests
Success rate of 7% compares with 3% for state-educated applicants
Major IT firms added to cross-government strategic supplier list
Computacenter and AWS have, in the last 12 months, both been added to the list of the government’s foremost suppliers
Williamsons vows to ‘trust teachers rather than algorithms’ for GCSEs and A-levels
Education secretary also announces that schools must deliver at least three hours of online teaching a day
‘We are capturing a comprehensive record of what government has been saying’
Keeper of the National Archives Jeff James on how coronavirus has reinforced the importance of public information
Cheshire signs long-term Microsoft cloud partner in £35m deal
Local authorities ink six-year contract
Children without laptops to be allowed to go to school
Guidance clarifies that those without access to devices will be considered ‘vulnerable’
How digital services kept the DVLA on the road during 2020
Chief executive Julie Lennard on the role of tech in responding to the pandemic, and how people’s expectations of online tools have changed
HMRC seeks £125k leader for Making Tax Digital programme
Department seeks head to oversee possible expansion to cover corporation tax
BT wins £18m deal to provide Buckinghamshire public sector network
Telco appointed to five-year contract
‘Next year shouldn’t be back to normal’
BEIS perm sec Sarah Munby discusses a year of securing millions of vaccines, delivering business loans, and providing guides to safer working
National statistician: ‘Digital census presents new opportunities and challenges’
Sir Ian Diamond discusses the use of data during the pandemic, and how the ONS will balance this ongoing work with the demands of the national census next year
Government ‘working towards’ publishing new digital strategy sometime this year
Plan was due to be published in autumn