Government spends £400m to acquire bankrupt satellite firm
After being shut out of EU satellite programme in light of Brexit, UK joins consortium with Indian telecoms giant Bharti to buy OneWeb
Treasury ‘got it wrong’ over tweet celebrating pubs reopening
Ministry deleted post encouraging people to ‘raise a glass’ after backlash
Government defends Test and Trace as proportion of contacts being reached drops sharply
In the first two weeks tracers were successfully reaching more than nine in ten identified close...
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Home Office ‘exploring options’ ahead of end to funding scheme for vulnerable citizens’ settled status applications
Almost a million EU citizens are yet be granted status with £9m grant funding programme slated to close on 31 March
Conservatives warn PM that Huawei decision ‘leaves UK utterly friendless’
Senior figures including Iain Duncan Smith and Tom Tugendhat urge reconsideration of 5G infrastructure plans
Home Office body takes evidence on ethics of police use of facial recognition
Department’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group seeks input from various parties
DWP to build digital platform for integrated disability assessments
Department to trial new system and methods in small ‘transformation area’
Government Communication Service to collect and analyse data on public-service radio ads
Cabinet Office seeks supplier to fulfil two-year contract
Data suggests big local differences in EU settlement applications
Campaign group calls for local authorities to lead on supporting applications as only a quarter of EU citizens in some areas have applied so far
GDS boss Alison Pritchard: ‘There’s scope for us to be a bit more of an enforcer’
Director general says that, as organisation focuses more on data, she wants to ensure ‘we maintain the teeth we need to be effective’
Lord Agnew to take on GDS ministerial responsibility
Post is split between Treasury and Cabinet Office
UK plans to ditch all physical immigration documents
The Home Office will move to digital systems across the board – despite repeated warnings over ‘parallels with Windrush’
PM launches major defence and foreign policy review with pledge to ‘harness new technologies’
Exercise will consider spending on military equipment as well as the work of a range of departments
Government uses natural-language processing to support post-Brexit trade consultation
ONS data scientists are supporting the DIT in applying AI techniques to public responses
Home Office begins work on modern slavery statement service
Department awards £500k contract for design of digital tool
Why have governments struggled to get it right on digital identity?
With many government-developed services seeing poor uptake, the answer may lie in allowing citizens to ‘bring your own identity’, according to Arthur Mickoleit of Gartner
HMCTS launches online tool for separated parents to apply for child visitation
Courts service says digital offering will eradicate need to fill in up to 30 pages of paper forms
MPs’ call for DCMS to be appointed Whitehall data-sharing auditor rejected by government
Government responds to PAC report to insist that each department needs its own rules
NHS consults on scheme to unite public and private healthcare data
Exercise launched following conclusion of Paterson Review
Foreign Office picks Deloitte for £250k project to develop cybersecurity strategy
Auditor giant wins contract to assist department in assessing cyber needs and priorities
DCMS beefs up ministers’ digital and data portfolios
New-look ministerial team has strong tech focus
Government commits £1.2bn for supercomputer to predict extreme weather
High-tech system will be managed by the Met Office
Government’s top official predicts civil service ‘will need fewer people’ as automation takes hold
Cabinet secretary Sedwill says he ‘would like to see more processes handled’ by technology