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HM Revenue & Customs briefs staff on major downsizing of its estate – CSW has the key details and reaction from unions
Matt Hancock says new team will bring together officials and ministers to focus on digital reform
Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock sets up a new group to help departments to become "intelligent consumers of their own data" – and promises lunchtime coding groups for civil servants. Audience members at the Open Data Institute meanwhile quiz him on the privatisation of the Postcode Address File
Tech industry group says some initiatives designed to open up markets are poorly understood, but Crown Commercial Service chief Sally Collier insists Whitehall is "changing the way it does business" with smaller firms
DVSA in the market for new in-house digital staff after similar move by the DVLA to bring IT back home
Minister for the Cabinet Office Matt Hancock says reforming public servants who are "encumbered by regulatory barriers" need to speak out
Consultancy to advise HMRC on end of the decade-long IT deal
Four ex-Government Digital Service staff join their old boss at the Co-op
Hancock bats away Labour questions on GDS turnover – and praises services that take "less time than boiling an egg"
Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock releases figures showing GDS exits since May represent 2% of its workforce – while Labour warns of "haemorrhaging" of digital talent
Investigatory Powers Tribunal says Wilson Doctrine has 'no legal effect'
Lord Bridges says digital agenda will be top of the list for the civil service's new HR chief – while Labour's Chi Onwurah tries to dig up figures on the scale of recent GDS exits
GDS unveils new Digital Outcomes and Services framework
Central government digital team gets councils to close down unused gov.uk sites
Beyond the comfort zone: Andrew Rogoyski, head of cyber security services at global IT supplier CGI, tells Civil Service World about an eye-opening secondment working on cyber security in the Cabinet Office
Cabinet Office director of open data and government innovation Paul Maltby named as new director of data
Jeremy Heywood says "absolutely vital" digital team moving to "next phase" with departure of chief Mike Bracken
Minister for the Cabinet Office unveils plans for "digital fellowship" exchange on visit to Silicon Valley with government's CTO Liam Maxwell
"This is the start of regaining control of the IT estate," says outgoing DVLA digital chief Iain Patterson, as agency moves services back in-house
Tim Kelsey to step down as NHS England’s national director for patients and information
MI5 director general Andrew Parker gives first live interview to "increase understanding" of intelligence agency's work – and suggests social media firms have an "ethical responsibility" to report terror concerns
Former attorney general – and recent critic of government's human rights plans – elected to lead the Intelligence and Security Committee
Speed of MoJ's responses to Freedom of Information requests comes under scrutiny from the Information Commissioner's Office
PM highlights achievements of Whitehall's digital team as he argues government has "moral imperative" to "streamline" public services