Government major projects urged to use digital and robotics to help beat massive inflation
The cost of materials has risen by almost a quarter in the last six months, according to IPA chief
HMRC accounts estimate £4.5bn in Covid schemes fraud
Figure may be as high as £6.4bn, according to department
DWP and Scottish Government in dispute over IT costs of welfare devolution
Authorities working to resolve disagreement concerning ‘digital investment activity’
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Prison service seeks £6m partner to help ‘switch off large pieces of legacy estate’
HMPPS cites need to eliminate need to provide data to ageing platforms
Home Office keeps 250 sets of applications in AWS or Azure
Minister reveals department does not currently use Google Cloud Platform
‘Get things right at the start’ – new playbook sets out rules to be applied to all government digital projects
Document covers issues such as assessments of suppliers and delivery models, and upfront consideration of potential issues with legacy IT
HMRC signs £300m deals to support and modernise major applications
Tax agency awards contracts for support, decommissioning, disaggregation and modernisation of systems for income tax, National Insurance and other core applications
Treasury to crowdsource innovation ideas from officials in bid to save £5.5bn
Ministers believe measures such as digitisation, shared services, and reducing use of consultants could help cut waste
Central database aims to give government buyers insight into suppliers’ past performance
New digital platform will allow public bodies to ‘see how the parts of the jigsaw connect together’, according to CCS boss
‘HMRC is on track to break up our largest IT contracts – and create the organisation we need for the future’
In this exclusive Q&A – and ahead of a keynote presentation at PublicTechnology Live this month – the tax agency’s CDIO Daljit Rehal discusses his transformation priorities, including reforming the supply chain, tackling legacy IT, and a major push towards low code
‘Chronically underfunded’ – Scotland’s Open University may have to limit student numbers
Mainstay of remote learning provision indicates estimated financial shortfall of £16m
Cabinet Office signs £4m deal to build unified portal for managing government grants
Tech consultancy picked to support project to create centralised system
Scottish 5G hub aims to be ‘lynchpin’ for economic transformation
Head of organisation aims to be ‘completely embedded in this strategy’
HMRC signs £1.7m partner to expand and improve ‘bulk data exploitation’ platform
Cloud-based system allows users to access and analyse large amounts of unstructured data held by tax department
HMRC signs £4m deal to support online trade tariff calculator
Department awards two-year contract
HMRC chief praises ‘remarkable’ work on post-Brexit customs system
Deputy CEO MacDonald commends adaptation of both outgoing CHIEF and incoming CDS platforms
NHS Digital received £160m funding boost in FY21 to support Covid response
Organisation’s annual accounts reveal major effort to deliver platforms to support booking of tests and vaccination
‘Shambles’ – ageing IT systems cited as MPs scold DWP for £1bn pension underpayment
PAC finds that department failed to understand importance of keeping tech up to date
Government strengthens cryptocurrency regulation
Advertising of assets to be overseen by financial services watchdog
SMEs rush to sign up for Scottish Government digitisation funding scheme
Applications closed early after strong uptake for £25m programme
HMRC warns small firms on digital VAT deadline with two-thirds still to register
Companies with less than £85,000 of taxable revenue must switch to online system from next fiscal year
‘Not learning from successes or failures’ – NAO head criticises government project evaluation
Departments often choose not to adequately assess work, meaning there is a dearth of information, according to auditing chief
Government major projects chief: ‘There has been a huge effort to do things differently’
Nick Smallwood of the IPA discusses the challenges of 2021 and his reform ambitions for the year ahead
HMRC’s 2022 priorities: Boosting cyber defences and ‘getting the tax system back on even keel’
Chief executive Jim Harra discusses the many challenges of the year just gone, and those to come in the months ahead