Corporate report: Government Digital Strategy: quarterly progress report...
This report describes the work done by departments between January and March 2015 to carry out the Government Digital Strategy.
View ArticleCollection: Government Digital Strategy: reports and research
Updated: March 2015 quarterly progress report has been added.The Government Digital Strategy sets out how government will redesign its digital services to make them so straightforward and convenient...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Procurement Policy Note 06/15: sustainable skills development...
Government requires public procurers of major construction and infrastructure projects, with a capital value over £50 million, to use public procurement to increase investment in training and...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Procurement Policy Note 07/15: open standards for technology
This note provides information on:government policy on open standards principles for software interoperability, data and document formatsopen standards that have been selected for use across...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Procurement Policy Note 05/15: prompt payment and performance...
New reporting requirements on prompt payment were announced in the Budget 2015. This note sets out what central government departments, including their Executive Agencies and Non Departmental Public...
View ArticlePolicy paper: Procurement Policy Note 08/15: tax arrangements of appointees
This note provides guidance for departments, their Executive Agencies and Non Departmental Public Bodies to help them seek assurance about the tax arrangements for their public appointees.This note...
View ArticleCollection: Procurement policy notes
Updated: PPNs 05/15, 06/15, 07/15, 08/15 added.Guidance on best practice for procurement for public sector organisations, together with supporting documentation.Please note: the Service Desk telephone...
View ArticleSpeech: Open Data Champions event: Francis Maude speech
IntroductionGood afternoon and thank you for joining me here today. To paraphrase Victor Hugo, nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come, and transparency is an idea whose time has come....
View ArticleGuidance: Social investment tax relief factsheet
Updated: Updated to reflect the new guidance.If you make a qualifying investment in a social enterprise, including a charity, social investment tax relief (SITR) can:give you a reduction of 30% of that...
View ArticleConsultation outcome: Social investment and the youth sector: call for...
Updated: Added summary of responses received, lessons learned and next steps.The Cabinet Office Youth Policy team wants to support youth sector organisations to measure and demonstrate the impact they...
View ArticleGuidance: Open Document Format (ODF): validators and compliance testing
The UK government has selected ODF as the standard for editable office documents to be used across government. This guidance gives information on how to ensure applications dealing with editable...
View ArticleGuidance: Open Document Format (ODF): user needs
Applications, products and services that government organisations use to deal with editable documents must be compliant with the ODF standard. This guidance looks at how user needs analysis can help...
View ArticleGuidance: Open Document Format (ODF): an introduction
The UK government has selected ODF as the standard for editable office documents to be used across government. ODF was selected as the standard for government because it:allows citizens, businesses and...
View ArticleCollection: Open Document Format (ODF) guidance
The UK government has selected ODF as the standard for editable office documents to be used across government. The documents in this collection look at the ODF standard and related procurement issues....
View ArticlePolicy paper: Functional model for more efficient and effective government
The functional model of government provides strong central leadership of cross-departmental corporate functions. This model will professionalise the civil service through improved decision-making,...
View ArticlePress release: Government on track to exceed £20 billion of savings and...
Updated: Added link to the functional model.The government is on track to deliver its target of saving £20 billion for 2014 to 2015 against a 2009 to 2010 baseline through efficiency and reform, and by...
View ArticleCollection: Government Major Projects Portfolio: Senior Responsible Owners
Updated: Added Home Office SROs to collectionThe guidance for officials giving evidence to Parliamentary Select Committees, known as the Osmotherly Rules was updated on 17 October 2014. As part of this...
View ArticleGuidance: General election 2015: guidance for civil servants
This guidance takes effect at the dissolution of Parliament on 30 March 2015. It applies to all UK civil servants, and the board members and staff of Non-Departmental Public Bodies and other arms...
View ArticleGuidance: Election guidance for civil servants
Updated: General election 2015: guidance for civil servants publishedGuidance on the conduct of civil servants in the run up to local, national, European elections and the referendum on the voting...
View ArticleTransparency data: Cabinet Office major projects: appointment letters for...
Each government department publishes the letters of appointment for their GMPP Senior Responsible Owners (SROs). These letters include the date of appointment, the project deliverables, what the SRO is...
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