Digital, Data & Technology

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