Digital, Data & Technology

Agency “has no contingency plan” for lower-than-predicted uptake of digital tax plans, Public Accounts Committee warns

New recruit be responsible for managing a £50m annual IT budget

James Stewart becomes the latest senior departure from the Government Digital Service, as he makes the case for IT spend controls

Land Registry "will remain in the public sector", Autumn Statement confirms, as PCS hails campaign victory

Mayank Prakash scoops UK IT Industry Award as department denies rumours of a project overspend

Senior DH official will need to show “flexibility, adaptability and resilience"

Debate over the future of the Government Digital Service continues as former senior official in charge of the Digital Marketplace warns of a "lack of vision, lack of ambition and lack of any sort of a plan"

Arif Harbott and Emily Ackroyd joining the GDS, Kevin Cunnington announces

New strategy unveiled by the chancellor to be broken up into three strands – "defence, deter and develop" 

New report by the Institute for Government flags skills gap, policy divide and officials' attitudes to digital as potential barrier to service transformation and big savings

 Exit of chief technology officer marks latest in a series of departures from Government Digital Service over the last three months

Civil service human resources team wants to modernise and improve digital recruitment services

National Audit Office says GDS now getting on better with Defra after subsidies fiasco – but announces wider probe into effectiveness of the central digital team

Foreshew-Cain, who left Whitehall last month, follows in the footsteps of ex-GDS leader Mike Bracken

New director general Kevin Cunnington sets out his "cunning plan" for the Government Digital Service, and outlines plans to create "one national structure" for senior digital staff

In his first press briefing since taking over at the Government Digital Service, Kevin Cunnington signals his plan for lighter spend controls, a greater national presence – and perhaps a farewell to GDS's trademark bunting. Rebecca Hill of CSW's sister site PublicTechnology reports​

Confirmed: MoD's chief information officer Mike Stone to leave in March next year

Former British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould to be based in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Public Accounts Committee says the government's latest plan to cut costs by sharing back office functions has failed to learn the lessons of previous attempts

HMRC says the new director will be responsible for IT transformation and cloud strategy

Centre, which aims to bring together the UK government's cyber security expertise, will reportedly be based in Victoria

HMRC may need to delay digital tax plans, Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie tells new chancellor Philip Hammond

Tom Read, who has been at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for just seven months, will take over from Arif Harbott