Digital, Data & Technology

Civil service human resources team wants to modernise and improve digital recruitment services

National Audit Office says GDS now getting on better with Defra after subsidies fiasco – but announces wider probe into effectiveness of the central digital team

Foreshew-Cain, who left Whitehall last month, follows in the footsteps of ex-GDS leader Mike Bracken

New director general Kevin Cunnington sets out his "cunning plan" for the Government Digital Service, and outlines plans to create "one national structure" for senior digital staff

In his first press briefing since taking over at the Government Digital Service, Kevin Cunnington signals his plan for lighter spend controls, a greater national presence – and perhaps a farewell to GDS's trademark bunting. Rebecca Hill of CSW's sister site PublicTechnology reports​

Confirmed: MoD's chief information officer Mike Stone to leave in March next year

Former British ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould to be based in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

The Public Accounts Committee says the government's latest plan to cut costs by sharing back office functions has failed to learn the lessons of previous attempts

HMRC says the new director will be responsible for IT transformation and cloud strategy

Centre, which aims to bring together the UK government's cyber security expertise, will reportedly be based in Victoria

HMRC may need to delay digital tax plans, Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie tells new chancellor Philip Hammond

Tom Read, who has been at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for just seven months, will take over from Arif Harbott 

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