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Department signs ‘digital charter’ with 15 companies

Department has “no real understanding” of how well £12bn of pump-priming cash is being used, MPs warn

Appointment comes more than a year after communities department advertised for a chief scientific adviser

Regulator publishes Openness by Design three-year plan

Department floats two-year contact to support delivery of tech and infrastructure

Prospect members protest at imposition of rejected 1.3% pay offer

McLean was awarded damehood for services to mathematical biology and advice to government

Home Office to pay extra £82m to Motorola as contract for service roll-out extended

Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018

Grade 6 post will have join team developing the National Data Strategy

Tech giant announced that next version of iOS will permit third-party access to near-field communications

Singh review finds poor coordination and outdated IT systems made it difficult to find everyone affected by demands for DNA evidence

Department’s chief digital information officer tells Civil Service World about transforming working practices and service delivery at the UK tax authority, and why improving diversity starts with leaders who are self-aware

Cross-departmental body will help to create digital identity market, Cabinet Office says

Speaking at a think-tank event, Lord Macpherson also offered thoughts on the economy to incoming prime minister, while Treasury Select Committee chair said a full leadership contest is needed “so the maddest ideas perhaps don’t make it to asking for official civil service advice”. 

Other initiatives unveiled in hotly anticipated strategy include a cross-government plan to ‘tackle legacy technology’

Department creates digital system for call centre workers to take information

MPs warn practice is undermining the nation’s international climate and development targets

In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former deputy principal private secretary to the prime minister Ed Whiting, who is now director of strategy for the Wellcome Trust

Public Accounts Committee also says Cabinet Office can't demonstrate its approach ensures value for money

Department implements controls to prevent fraudsters calling citizens from numbers that appear legitimate

MP says ongoing vacancy exposed in wake of Grenfell tragedy is "astounding" a year after search began

Sedwill acknowledges setbacks but says 2014 reset he oversaw was "reasonable based on the information available at the time"

Digital director will lead "transition away from legacy technology", NCA says