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Government claims 10-year plan to converge back office services will save millions of pounds

Department seeks supplier to bring two programmes under single service-management structure in £200m-plus project

Department launches three-year plan to boost digital, data and technology offer

Organisation recruiting for role heading up ‘small, but growing team’

Treasury committee launches inquiry into the impact of childcare policy on the economy, which will include HMRC’s role

Candidate will also be tasked with leading review of how legislation could be modernised following EU withdrawal

With the end of 2017 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2018 – and tell us what they cannot do Christmas without

PublicTechnology editor Sam Trendall examined the challenges and rewards of driving the government's digital transformation

Current academy leader Sweeney reveals impending move to Australia, as skills and training organisation also lifts lid on plans to collaborate more with other governments

Partially government-owned Behavioural Insights Team publishes results of trial schemes and urges Whitehall to take notice

FCO teams up with DFID and British Council to tender for four-year framework to provide networking to 550 sites in the UK and throughout the world

With less than six months until new data-protection law is introduced, PublicTechnology hears from regulators and data professionals across central and local government about what they see as the major challenges facing them between now and 25 May

NAO report identifies staffing gaps in five departments and high rate of turnover in DExEU

Crown Commercial Service gathering information to ensure typically busy period is negotiated smoothly

Department claims that giving French firm a contract extension – without competitive process – is ‘only viable route’ to completing decoupling process

Two reports – from Reform and Lord Holmes – flag up the transformational potential of the distributed ledger technology

Polly Payne and Ruth Hannant named directors general for Rail Group in move hailed by perm sec as progress in "overwhelmingly male" industry

Government claims better use of location data produced by public bodies could grow the economy by £11bn a year

Top government officials detail list of changes to 85 IT systems at the UK border required because of Brexit

Chancellor Philip Hammond set to respond to Sir Michael Barber’s proposals in Wednesday’s Autumn Budget

After calling time on a long civil-service career earlier this year, the former Directgov and GDS leader discusses how digital government has evolved during the 20 years he spent as one of its leading advocates

Post-Brexit Britain “could lose its research edge” unless departments step up, say public spending watchdogs

Cabinet Office minister Caroline Nokes says Government Digital Service has "come of age", and insists she has never met an obstructive civil servant

Document from Government Commercial Function offers advice on how to best to decouple from monolithic contracts