Home Office signs BT to new £2bn ESN deal as 2029 target set for …
Aug 2, 2024 · EE was first awarded the contract to deliver ESN mobile services back in 2015. An updated agreement with government covers connections to commercial 5G services and ‘more granular regional KPIs’. The Home Office has signed BT and its subsidiary EE to a new £2bn-plus deal to provide the connec
HMRC looks to expand access to Government Gateway
Jul 21, 2022 · HM Revenue and Customs is seeking to widen citizens’ access to the Government Gateway online system by enabling the use of more forms of identity and new methods of verification. More than two decades after its launch – and four years beyond its theoretical closure – Government Gateway remains the primary means through which citizens can ...
DWP signs deal for AI tech to analyse citizens’ social posts in anti ...
Jan 18, 2024 · The DWP’s deal for the use of the technology is valued at £77,760 – equating to £25,920 for each of the three annual licences. This figure could double if the department chooses to enact an optional one-year extension. The department has previously indicated that it plans to spend £70m over a three-year period on using AI and automation ...
Environment Agency signs £28m deal for new national flood …
Feb 6, 2024 · The Environment Agency has signed a multimillion-pound deal to support the creation of a new national technology platform to deliver flood warnings to citizens, government and the media. On 4 March, the agency, an arm’s-length body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, will enter into an initial six-year contract with ...
DWP expects £600m-plus savings from long-term ‘service …
Jan 25, 2024 · The Department for Work and Pensions has revealed that it expects to deliver net savings of more than £600m through a long-term digital reform programme that aims to transform the services delivered to 20 million citizens. The Service Modernisation Programme (SMP), which was formally added to the government major projects portfolio last year ...
Feryal Clark named minister for AI and digital government
Jul 19, 2024 · The government has announced Feryal Clark as the UK’s new minister for AI and digital government – a role in which she will take on oversight of Whitehall’s core technology units. Her position is that of a parliamentary undersecretary of state in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Following a shake-up announced shortly ...
NHS seeks 30 suppliers for £3bn IT framework – PublicTechnology
Sep 23, 2024 · NHS plans £840m framework for digital diagnostic tools. NHS delays £350m GP IT framework after legal challenge. NHS plans £150m framework to help solve trusts legacy issues with patient data. Both frameworks are intended to connect NHS bodies – and any other public-sector buyers that wish to use the agreement – with suppliers of core ...
All criminal courts now using Common Platform IT system
Aug 7, 2023 · All courts in England and Wales that hear criminal cases are now connected to the Common Platform IT system, the government has announced. This includes the network of more than 150 magistrates’ courts and about 90 Crown courts – where more serious cases must be heard. The new platform has been created to a single digital case-management ...
HMRC to begin migrating ‘small numbers’ of Government …
Jan 26, 2024 · Tax agency first set out plans to decommission outgoing platform eight years ago, but the process of switching over tens of millions of users is now finally ready to begin HM Revenue and Customs is to shortly begin the process of migrating tens of millions of users of the long-standing Govern
Oracle and IBM win £850m deal for DWP, Home Office, MoJ and …
Sep 26, 2024 · Four of government’s biggest departments have picked Oracle and IBM to fulfil shared-services agreements worth more than £850m over the next decade. Led by the Department for Work and Pensions, the Synergy group of departments also contains the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.