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