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By allowing access to technology today, the NHS can create a better tomorrow for people with Type 1 diabetes, says George Howarth MP.
It’s time to act decisively to end children’s exposure to gambling advertising – or we risk a future gambling epidemic, warns Lord Chadlington
If the state embraced Blockchain’s benefits it would be rewarded with increased social freedom, efficiency and trust, writes Eddie Hughes
It’s time to ditch physical forms of ID for electronic versions – digital identity presents an effective, cost-saving alternative that would aid the smooth running of our economy and society, says Ed Vaizey
It would be harder to find many Ministers who have shown less interest in the topics contained in their brief than newly appointed Minister for the Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Jeremy Wright QC, says Dods Monitoring's, Andy Frain.
Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has denied that big tech firms like Facebook and Google are too big to regulate ahead of a planned government clampdown.
London MP and former Minister Stephen Hammond writes about an app, launched this week by one of his constituents. He writes "Knife crime is something that affects us all in some way and it’s time we all responsibly got involved".
The Campaign for Fairer Gambling says it is 'unbelievable' that the Treasury thinks it takes two years to run a software update on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs). 'Somehow Ministers have contrived to give the bookies a longer transition period than it will take to negotiate Brexit'.
Co-chair of the APPG on Assistive Technology, Seema Malhotra MP, says the EU Web Accessibility Directive may be one of the last pieces of human rights legislation to come to us from the EU.
We’ve endured decades of slow progress toward diversity in STEM – so join me now in supporting a new APPG that is determined to make change happen, writes Chi Onwurah
Ministers have thrown their weight behind a Liberal Democrat bid to clamp down on people who take secret “upskirt” pictures of unsuspecting victims.
Plans to slash the maximum stake on fixed odds betting machines will reportedly be delayed by two years after the Treasury cut a deal with industry bosses.
Ministers are to hand councils £50m to create hundreds of new school places for children with special needs - but Labour has already dismissed the cash boost as "old funding".
Theresa May will today challenge the NHS to step up its use of "smart technology" to prevent more than 20,000 cancer-related deaths every year.
British people will get five more years of healthy life by 2030 thanks to artificial intelligence in the NHS, Theresa May is set to say.
SNP MP Ronnie Cowan welcomes today's DCMS announcement and writes that 'the issue of gambling related harm was too great for any Government department to block a reduction on the unit stake on FOBTs to £2'.
Senior Tory councillors have hit out at the Government for being put in the “unsustainable” position of having to funnel spending marked for state schools into supporting special needs children.
A digital NHS can save lives through shared data – so it’s vital we make the positive case for using anonymised patient information, writes Alan Mak
Today, Good Things Foundation and Tech Nation have launched a Playbook to help organisations build local partnerships so they can support people in their communities to gain digital skills - and they need your help to co-design this new resource.
Change seems to be inevitable, we need to start planning for it today if we are going to be healthier and happier tomorrow, says Lawrence Waterman, Chairman, British Safety Council.
In the modern world, the dangers of asbestos are well understood, but back in the 1970s it was widely used and thought to be a ‘wonder material’ with superb insulating and fire retardant properties. A huge number of people were unintentionally exposed to harmful fibres, and over 40 years later experts still believe we have not yet reached the peak in the number of resulting cases of asbestos-related disease.
Thousands of Russian Twitter bots were used in a bid to influence the snap general election in favour of Jeremy Corbyn, new research has shown.
Ahead of his Lords Question on Thursday 26 April, Lord Haskel writes for PoliticsHome on the future of Galileo space project.
SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business is bringing together our industry leading experts and best in class partners, including government, local and national transport authorities, city councils, transport providers, network operators, data providers, charities, academia and vehicle manufacturers to optimise UK transport systems.