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Information commissioner’s term extended to allow successor recruitment
Elizbeth Denham will remain in post until November, at request of secretary of state
‘When coronavirus struck, we accelerated, because citizens were struggling’ – how DWP revamped the Budgeting Loans service
The pandemic illustrated the importance of work to improve a service offering support for...
Report calls for ‘more power’ in Whitehall to be centralised
UK’s top two civil servants should be handed more responsibility as part of drive to make...
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Email security incidents happen every 12 hours – it’s time to close the gap in Microsoft 365
The remote-first world has seen email being relied on more than ever as a core communication mechanism - but with 93% of IT leaders acknowledging a risk to sensitive data, what steps should be taken to secure data? Egress explores
Ageing tech has added £50m to HMRC costs during pandemic, report finds
Legacy IT has accounted for 80% of additional expense, according to PAC
PM pledges to publish more data on vaccine rollout
Johnson claims government will provide more localised breakdowns
HMRC vows to improve tax-gap data
Department supports call from MPs for more information
Police seek to ‘mitigate impact’ as work continues to restore huge volume of arrest data
Ministers stress mass deletion was result of ‘human error’
Arrest info on 150,000 people accidentally deleted from police database
Minister says data was wiped during ‘standard housekeeping process’
A Guide Through the New SCCs
One Trust breaks down the modular approach of the new SCCs
NHS Digital spends £8m on four deals to support ‘Covid-19 rapid response’
Quartet of contracts awarded last month
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
Has the High Court outlawed mass computer surveillance?
Privacy campaigners have hailed a major victory as a judgement declares the use of general warrants unlawful. PublicTechnology takes a closer look.
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
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
‘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
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
The biggest stories of 2020 – part two
PublicTechnology completes our round-up of the most read and significant stories of 2020
The biggest stories of 2020 – part one
PublicTechnology rounds up the most-read and significant stories we covered this year