Technology

Dont follow Australia on vaping ban, says IEA expert

Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on the Health Secretary Steve Barclay's suggestion that the UK could learn lessons from Australia's approach to vaping

Updated: Fri Jun 23 2023

Showing pride in business: top tips for Pride Month

June is Pride month - a month dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ communities all around the world. And to mark it, Kristofer McGhee, LGBTQ+ advocate and General Counsel for IfATE, provided these tips for businesses. Kristofer McGhee is the General Counsel ...

Updated: Fri Jun 23 2023

Experiments in Service Assessments

If you haven't heard of the Government Service Standard, well you have now. Those of us in the business of building digital products and services in the public sector use this framework to make sure we create the right thing, ...

Updated: Thu Jun 22 2023

techUK members support for Ukraine

With the Ukraine Recovery Conference underway, techUK has put together a statement outlining the various ways in which our members have supported Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022

Updated: Wed Jun 21 2023

Solicitor apprenticeships: Hamza's journey

Solicitor apprentices are outperforming those taking the more traditional academic route into law. Apprentice pass rates for the Solicitor Qualifying Examinations (SQE) are, on average, 26% higher than the overall pass rate. Hamza Islam, at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, shared ...

Updated: Mon Jun 19 2023

Financial Conduct Authoritys Consumer Duty TechSprint

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is holding its three-day Consumer Duty TechSprint covering the operational experiences towards consumer data integration of the sector's innovative solutions.

Updated: Fri Jun 16 2023

Dstl hosts drones digital forensics workshop

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has hosted a collaborative digital forensics workshop to help combat the illegal use of drones.

Updated: Thu Jun 15 2023

IEA - BOGOF ban to worsen cost-of-living crisis

Head of Lifestyle Economics at the free market think tank the Institute of Economics Affairs, Christopher Snowdon, commented on the government's decision to continue pursuing its ban on supermarket ‘buy one get one free' offers

Updated: Thu Jun 15 2023

State of the Connected Home 2023

techUK, in partnership with GfK, is delighted to release the seventh edition of our annual State of the Connected Home report.

Updated: Thu Jun 15 2023

Data Engineering Hackathon 2022

At the end of last year, MoJ's Data Engineering teams got together in Shoreditch for our largest ever 2 day hackathon. We had three teams, each working on a separate project which would incorporate technology the organisation wished to investigate. ...

Updated: Tue Jun 13 2023

IEA - Govt windfall tax relief is too little, too late

Andy Mayer, Energy Analyst at the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on the government's decision to ease windfall taxes when oil and gas prices fall below the 20-year average

Updated: Mon Jun 12 2023