‘A significant gap between HMRC’s perceptions and what taxpayers can do online’

Three professional bodies for finance professionals have warned that department must improve customer service and take a more cautious approach to digitisation
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DWP develops data tool to simulate ‘future world and how we can prepare for it’.

System will process economic and societal data sets and create projections for the impact on services and operations
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Watchdog MPs have called on the next government to drive reforms to enable better cross-departmental data-sharing, with costs for the shift borne centrally rather than by individual bodies.
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The Labour Digital movement has picked out and endorsed 40 candidates standing at the upcoming general election who are cited as the party’s leading advocates of technology-powered transformation.
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A range of bodies representing local authorities have collectively urged government to create a “centralised mechanism” to provide funding and support for councils’ use of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Full-fibre broadband is heading to 28 suburbs, towns, and villages across Scotland as part of broadband upgrade plans supported by the Scottish Government and delivered by Openreach.
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The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a near-£3m deal to access strategic and project-management support for a programme to retire legacy on-premises computing hardware and move systems to the cloud.
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A “technical fault” with government’s online system for submitting divorce applications allowed 67 couples to successfully untie the knot earlier than should have been allowed, ministers have admitted.
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Watchdog MPs have called on the next government to drive reforms to enable better cross-departmental data-sharing, with costs for the shift borne centrally rather than by individual bodies.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/30/edu…

Lookback: As Labour namechecks 40 candidates it believes embody its vision for digital, a reminder of how the party approached technological issues last time the country went to the polls.
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The Labour Digital movement has picked out and endorsed 40 candidates standing at the upcoming general election who are cited as the party’s leading advocates of technology-powered transformation.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/30/gov…

A range of bodies representing local authorities have collectively urged government to create a “centralised mechanism” to provide funding and support for councils’ use of artificial intelligence technologies.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/30/sci…

The Ministry of Justice is seeking to work with a supplier – on a pro bono basis – to continue exploring possible uses of generative artificial intelligence in triaging documents and information.
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An outage of a key government service for sharing data between agencies operating at the UK border did not result in any “significant delays” to import checks, a minister has claimed.
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Lookback: As it's revealed that online government systems may have enabled premature divorces, revisit this feature examine how one of the world's leading digital states handles the business of supporting couples in tying - and untying - the knot.
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publictechnology.net/2023/12/19/soc…

A “technical fault” with government’s online system for submitting divorce applications allowed 67 couples to successfully untie the knot earlier than should have been allowed, ministers have admitted.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/29/soc…

Full-fibre broadband is heading to 28 suburbs, towns, and villages across Scotland as part of broadband upgrade plans supported by the Scottish Government and delivered by Openreach.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/29/com…

MPs have been offered an apology after parliamentary officials acknowledged that the Palace of Westminster’s phone system has suffered weeks of technical issues.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/21/gov…

The Department for Work and Pensions has signed a near-£3m deal to access strategic and project-management support for a programme to retire legacy on-premises computing hardware and move systems to the cloud.
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publictechnology.net/2024/05/29/bus…

A significant amount of data from the National Records of Scotland was accessed as part of a recent cyberattack on an NHS health board.
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