Digital, Data & Technology

“All we’re asking is for the Met Office to be able to allocate what it needs to fund staff by industry standards,” Prospect’s Gordon Hutchinson tells CSW, as hundreds of Met Office staff set up picket lines

"I think we continued to do the ‘to departments’ [approach] for perhaps a little longer than we could or should have," GDS boss says

Director for G-Cloud and the digital commercial programme at the Government Digital Service moving to become deputy director of the BIS digital service

"Technology Products 2" framework will launch later this year – and CCS has begun conversations with departments and suppliers about improving the £1bn-a-year arrangement for buying in hardware and software

Report by committee of MPs says UK government is "in a world-leading position" on open data – but could be "proactively identifying data sharing opportunities to break departmental data silos"

MP Meg Hillier tells CSW that public confidence in the way HM Revenue and Customs reaches settlement deals with large corporations will be an issue until there is greater transparency

Latest Outsourcing Index by firm arvato finds 26% year-on-year rise in government spending on outsourcing

Common Technology Services chief Andy Beale to become deputy CTO – as government prepares to unveil digital strategy for the next four years

MPs say they are “disappointed” by lack of clarity over progress on welfare reforms

Reducing reliance on consultants and temps will require "much more fundamental workforce transformation" than seen so far, civil service chief John Manzoni tells MPs. But he says the organisation is "on the road" to addressing the problem

FDA general secretary Dave Penman says HMRC staff should not be blamed for internet giant Google’s controversial tax deal

New research shows Whitehall departments are good at sharing data with each other, but openness with the wider public sector is more of a challenge

"Contingent Labour One" will be replaced with a "Temporary Worker Contracting Vehicle", as CCS places heavy focus on digital skills and hints at smaller lots

Treasury Committee to review HMRC's approach to tax avoidance and consider whether overhaul of corporation tax is needed amid row over deal with search giant Google

Minister says longstanding errors with online documents could have affected 2,200 divorce settlements

Government should be trialling use of distributed ledger technologies to improve welfare payments, according to a report published today

Project "Ocean Liner" reportedly mulls insourcing and says there is "no consistent advice" for dealing with IT challenges across government

Successful candidate will succeed Tim Kelsey to lead on IT procurement and implementation

Government Digital Service prepares to roll out text, email and letter notification service for citizens in bid to cut inbound calls

HM Revenue and Customs boss is leaving the civil service later this year – and vows to carefully consider "appropriateness of potential roles and organisations" for life after Whitehall

After a scathing report on problems with the digital overhaul of the system for paying EU subsidies, spending watchdogs Meg Hillier and Amyas Morse criticise behaviour that was "distressing to staff and visibly confrontational"

Liam Maxwell announces that DVLA's chief technology officer is heading back to the centre of government in January

Rosemary Agnew says open data should be seen as complementing Freedom of Information, as she warns UK government commission is a “threat to FoI in the UK"

Whitehall's former digital chief to offer advice to governments around the world