Digital, Data & Technology

Shake-up comes just a month after the surprise appointment of the DWP's Kevin Cunnington (pictured) as director general of the Government Digital Service

National Audit Office finds 9,000 data breaches recorded by the 17 biggest government departments in last year – and says Cabinet Office must do more to help departments clamp down on loss and theft

“Security-minded folk who can think originally still don’t think working for government is cool," says anonymous Ministry of Justice recruiter

Ben Gummer says government has a "clear and co-orindated" vision for digital and says he already "commissioned it to do two very large pieces of work that it wasn’t doing before"

Treasury resistance hampered early planning, while over-stretched senior officials failed to spot warning signs that the project to overhaul benefits was failing, according to an in-depth report published by the Institute for Government

Successful candidate will have responsibility for leading teams of 500 data scientists, architects, statisticians and engineers

Revised Technology Code of Practice sets out criteria by which all big government technology projects will be judged

Interim director Jess McEvoy sets out next steps for flagship user verification service – as analysts downplay HMRC's move to develop its own ID system

How can Whitehall departments be persuaded to collaborate more effectively to achieve greater efficiency and savings? Mark Smulian reports on a round table discussion of the issue sponsored by CGI at Civil Service Live and led by the Ministry of Justice permanent secretary Richard Heaton

Daniel Thornton of the respected IfG think tank predicts greater role in business transformation work for government departments

Janet Hughes announces that she is to leave the flagship identity assurance scheme at the end of this week

“I’ve read many times about the end of GDS, but it has always come back stronger than before,” says new GDS director general