Edinburgh seeks £12m support for digital inclusion and growth projects
Local authority makes bid for funding from central government
Home Office retains £1.5m contractors to manually fix data issues with immigration systems
Department brings in external support for missing or duplicate entries across Atlas and CID...
Home Office to trial £500k ‘biometric self-service kiosks’ at immigration offices
Those attending appointments in Croydon or Solihull may be able to use automated checks
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Nadhim Zahawi pledges that multiple routes will be maintain for contact and bookings
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Cabinet Office minister Julia Lopez tells PublicTechnology Live event about the ambition behind the development of GOV.UK accounts
Data shows rise in honours candidates deemed ‘high-risk’ over tax affairs
HMRC vetting procedure identifies possible concerns
Home Office seeks proposals for age-verification technology for alcohol sales
Department to run a ‘regulatory sandbox’ exercise
Government brings in religious and community leaders to tackle online vaccine misinformation among BAME communities
Imams, pastors and doctors will be among those encouraging citizens to ‘check before you share’
Q&A: HMRC tech chief on how the department is ‘leading the way on government cloud adoption’
Daljit Rehal tells PublicTechnology about his priorities for the tax agency’s digital services and its programme to reform billions of pounds of tech procurement
Workplace safety regulator’s meetings closed to public for last year because of ‘tech limitations’
Minister explains failure to allow public access or publish any documentation
Government consults on potential vaccine passports
Discussions have already taken place about EU scheme offering digital certificates
Homebuyers offered smartphone identity-verification
HM Land Registry launches new standard
Outsourcer Sitel shopped to ICO after contact tracers told to use personal emails to share case info
Whistleblower raised concerns about practice that went unheeded
Statistics body calls for review of government use of health data
RSS says pandemic has exposed need for 'culture change' around how stats are used and publicised
App to offer citizens option to send location to police
Officers and the public in Scotland can now use the what3words technology
Scotland digital strategy promises ‘ambitious reform’ of government services
Government plan pledges use of common standards and development of new identity platform
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Government buys £6m of iPads for care homes
Contract covers the delivery of 11,000 devices, plus accessories and upkeep
Data shows big rise in vaccine positivity but demographic disparities remain
ONS research finds 94% are happy to get immunised, but feelings toward the vaccine vary significantly when split by socio-economic group, age and ethnicity