Grants are an important tool for central and local government to support citizens and businesses, and improve lives, the economy and society.

We’re working with the police and criminal justice agencies to develop and utilise innovative technology that can support victims of domestic violence better.

We look at public sector digital transformation projects delivered during the pandemic such as the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) Test and Trace programme.

Between the collapse of 83% of the UK’s department stores, consumers moving online and many high street shops now becoming obsolete, town centres are no longer the beating heart of local economies they once were.

Hearing that we had achieved 98% overall satisfaction was probably the first time in my professional career where I have had an emotional response.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the decline of our high streets and town centres.

Estonia is a small ex-Soviet country in Northern Europe that has a population of only 1.3 million, seven times less than London.

The climate change crisis, caused mainly by emission of greenhouse gases and burning fossil fuels for energy use, is accelerating at a rapid rate and having catastrophic impacts on our weather, environment and the future of our planet.

At a recent roundtable in partnership with Wired, Doug Brown, Head of Data, Cyber and AI Guild and Chief Data Scientist of Capita Consulting, was joined by Lisa Talia Moretti, a digital sociologist at the Ministry of Justice; Reid Darby, innovation lead at Golden Valley Development in Cheltenham; Carly Kind, Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute and Tavi Kotka, an engineer/entrepreneur and former Chief Information Officer for the Estonian government to discuss data, identity and the digital citizen.

The government has proposed many changes to the planning system in England in its White Paper ‘Planning for the future’.