Unions slam Reform UK plans to oust perm secs and cut 68,500 jobs
15 Dec Digital, Data & Technology

Unions slam Reform UK plans to oust perm secs and cut 68,500 jobs

Party announces more details of civil service reform policies including weakening pensions in favour of higher bonuses, increasing office working and big cuts to policy profession
by Tevye Markson
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Government scraps cross-department chief digital officer role
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OBR chair Richard Hughes quits over Budget-document bungle
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Red team security unit to test departmental defences with hostile reconnaissance
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HMRC phone lines closed over 'technical issue' – MPs demand answers
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The fast and the curious: Anita Friend on the Defence and Security Accelerator's 'defendable' decisions
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ICO 'not going easy on government', data watchdog chief says
01 Dec 2022 Digital, Data & Technology
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Commissioner claims that fining public bodies simply creates a ‘money-go-round’
Civil service job cuts 'should fund better pay for top new recruits'
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NAO sounds alarm as funding shortfalls threaten departmental shared-services drive
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Cabinet Office “doesn’t know how much has been spent or what benefits to expect”, watchdog warns
DBS back-office staff threaten ‘indefinite’ industrial action
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PCS chief says billionaire employer can “easily” end pay dispute – plus, more HMCTS strikes announced
Cabinet Office alerted to data breach – and fails to respond for 10 days
28 Nov 2022 Digital, Data & Technology
Cabinet Office alerted to data breach – and fails to respond for 10 days
Personal details of civil servant and supplier exposed by inadequately redacted document
Cabinet Office warned of ‘serious risk’ to services as UKCloud customers hit with sevenfold price increase
22 Nov 2022 Digital, Data & Technology
Cabinet Office warned of ‘serious risk’ to services as UKCloud customers hit with sevenfold price increase
Customers that cannot pay fees seven times higher than contracted price face a race against time to migrate data from collapsed £40m public sector hosting firm
Union announces more HMCTS strikes over 'unsustainable' Common Platform
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Strikes over IT system rollout will include one-day nationwide action at 66 courts in the UK
DfT names winners of £5m rail innovation fund
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Projects include self-charging trains, suicide-prevention technology and new ways to carry freight
HMRC’s new complaints-management system will be ‘ready in weeks’
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HMRC’s new complaints-management system will be ‘ready in weeks’
Delayed CHART project on course for January delivery, tax-collection agency says