Digital, Data & Technology

BEIS and DCMS seeking head for new jointly run Office for Artificial Intelligence

Plan also proposes “radically” reducing pay differentials between director general roles across departments, but any pay increase above the 1% cap in 2018-19 will need to be paid for by productivity improvements

Perm sec Richard Heaton admitted to being “startled and stunned” by the over-ambitious scheme

Government Communications Service director Alex Aiken says social media team will ‘reclaim a fact-based public debate’

Official statistics body launches audit of inequalities data and signals desire to work closely with rest of government and civil society

New deputy director will lead centralised team helping Whitehall manage the digital implications of leaving the EU while maintaining longer-term transformation goals

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

Reform hailed as evidence of One Team government approach to improving how Whitehall works

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

Supplier sought to kick off project by engaging with the big four mobile network operators

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

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

Prime minister insists Home Office chief-turned-national-security-adviser can decline request to appear

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

Automation can create jobs with the right policies in place, deputy leader Tom Watson says in new report

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

New measures will reduce lag on claimants' receipt of benefits payments from six weeks to five

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

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

RAC says plans to introduce clean air zones in cities could be hindered by lack of access to information