Justice secretary scolded for leaking stats on transgender prisoners to press
UKSA chair says giving data to journalists ahead of official release ‘risks misinforming the public’
Government hopes transparency standard can build trust in departments’ use of algorithms
New guidelines created by Central Digital and Data Office
Defra signs £1m extension for national equine database
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GoldmanEye: former spy chief to advise investment bank on cyber issues
Ex-MI6 head Alex Younger approved for new role
Messaging app users offered counterfeit NHS Covid Passes
Investigation by PoliticsHome finds Telegram anti-vaccine groups purporting to purvey fake digital and hard-copy certification
Government signs £6m deal for storage and analytics of Grenfell inquiry data
Epiq to fulfil two-year engagement
Will government reconsider digital-only status for EU nationals?
Having hitherto steadfastly maintained its opposition to issuing physical documents to recipients of EU settled status, the Home Office recently met with campaigners to listen to new proposals. PublicTechnology finds out more.
Test and Trace buys £1.3m software tool to analyse PCR results data
Government signs contract with Belgian specialist firm UgenTec
HM Passport Office picks £50m data transformation partner
Kainos awarded potential five-year deal to work on organisation’s data products
Home Office seeks tech and data leaders as transformation programme rolls on
Department has brought in £300k headhunters to support recruitment
Data shows sharp drop in NHS Covid app contact alerts and venue check-ins
Weekly number of exposure notifications falls by almost 300,000
DWP project to ‘address concerns’ over ageing tech in data warehouse
Department working to update hardware and software
Civil service skills map and synthetic data for policymakers among proposals to improve government data use
Ideas will be tested and the best will be taken forward
MoD offers first-ever bug bounty to find vulnerabilities in defence systems
Department runs 30-day exercise in partnership with ethical hackers
HMRC sets 2023 shutdown date for CHIEF customs platform
One year shy of its 30th birthday, outgoing system will be finally and fully replaced by Customs Declaration Service
Plymouth offers £100k for new digital chief
Newly created role comes with a remit to use data in service delivery
Government analyses social ‘narratives and influencers’ to support Covid response
Contract worth £1.4m signed at the start of the year
ONS digital team creates eight new roles in ‘ambitious expansion’
Statistics body recruiting for a range of positions
Clinical trial participants can now access digital NHS Covid Pass
Those who took part in testing programmes can now demonstrate their status
HMRC picks £5m partner to support programme to ‘transform customer interactions’
Department awards 18-month contract to William Alexander
Government continues trials of AI to detect Covid from cough noises
Pilot of so-called ‘cough-in-a-box’ tech expanded
More than three quarters completed census online
National statistician reveals ONS exceeded target for first digital exercise
Government digital function needs more enforcement powers – Maude report
Former Cabinet Office minister concludes that centralised functions should have a greater mandate to impose standards and spend controls