The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is hiring a Director General to lead emerging technology and artificial intelligence, offering a salary of up to £174,000. The role will shape the UK’s strategy, investment and regulation across AI, quantum computing, robotics, synthetic biology and advanced materials. It will manage a multidisciplinary team of about 500 staff and coordinate policy, risk and security considerations. Applications close on 22 March, with the position based in London, Manchester or Darlington.
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has signed a one‑year, £4.5 million contract with Capgemini to act as its AI services delivery partner. The deal will give the AI Security Institute and other DSIT teams access to research,...
The UK government is extending the Making Tax Digital (MTD) programme to home‑based childminders, eliminating the flat‑rate wear‑and‑tear allowance and requiring itemised expense claims. Ministers have pledged to monitor the impact, noting that only childminders earning over £50,000 will be...
The City of London Corporation has issued a £2.4 million preliminary market engagement to secure a strategic partner that will advise on its long‑term transformation. The programme aims to make the Square Mile authority “digitally enabled by design”, financially sustainable and...
NHS England has signed a three‑year, £33.6 million contract with London‑based TPXimpact to deliver digital services for maternity and child vaccinations. This agreement is the third digital‑prevention deal signed in the last six months, bringing the total spend on such services...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is hiring a senior director for its Digital and Transformation Group, offering a salary of up to £136,000. The role will steer the digital delivery of working‑age services, including Universal Credit, the jobs...
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) warns that generative AI image tools and end‑to‑end encryption are expanding opportunities for child sexual abuse online. It urges regulators, particularly Ofcom, to wield powers under the Online Safety Act to hold tech platforms...
The UK government’s Digital Service and Innovation Team (DSIT) is moving to curb the use of email attachments by civil servants, urging a shift to cloud‑based file sharing. Ministers highlighted that attachments increase human error and data‑loss risk, and new...
The Government Digital and Data Profession has introduced a dedicated “digital evaluator” role within its capability framework to embed evaluation directly into agile digital projects. The initiative follows a Treasury‑led review that highlighted shortcomings in how digital programmes are funded,...
The UK Department for Education (DfE) is issuing a £1.8 million contract to develop AI‑powered tutoring tools aimed at disadvantaged pupils. The procurement, expected to be awarded by May, will run for nearly three years with a possible one‑year extension. Up...
The Environment Agency (EA) is boosting its waste‑crime enforcement with a £5 million budget increase, expanding its fleet of 33 drones and fitting several with lidar laser‑mapping technology. Since July last year the agency logged 272 drone flight hours, using the...
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has launched an early‑stage market engagement to explore generative AI voice technology for government call centres, branding the initiative as a potential "GOV Voice" platform. The department seeks suppliers who can demonstrate...
Senior officials from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice told MPs that the new Atlas immigration case‑working platform is now live and that work to link it with justice‑system databases will be completed by spring. The current data silos...
The UK Department for Business and Trade has signed a 10‑week, £300,000 contract with Deloitte to explore a unified digital business ID that would provide a single login and a cross‑government business entity directory. The discovery phase will assess existing...
The Government Digital Service’s Vulnerability Monitoring Service (VMS), launched in summer 2024, now has over 700 public‑sector organisations signed up and is detecting more than 100 critical vulnerabilities each month. Offered free through the National Cyber Security Centre, the service...