Government services miss online deadline

A list of the government services that are still not available electronically has been revealed.

The government's aim had been that all of its services would be capable of being delivered electronically by 31 December 2005.

But in response to a written question last month, Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Jim Murphy provided a list of public services which are not still not "e-enabled".

Murphy said that while 96 per cent of all services are e-enabled, government departments have informed the Cabinet Office of a number of services that are not fully online.

These include:

• Possession Claims at the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

• Live Fish Movements Licenses, Waste Management Licenses, Discharge Consent Licenses; Abstraction licenes and the Waste Carrier Register at the Environment Agency.

• Fish Quota Allocations, Fishing Vessel Licenses; Catch Logs; CITES Schedule 4 birds licenses at the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs.

• Bus Operators Grant at the Department for Transport.

• My Healthspace (due late 2007) at the Department of Health.

• Energy Group Online Services, Services to Insolvency Practitioners, and redundancy payments at the Department for Trade and Industry.

• Criminal Records Bureau and Prison Visits at the Home Office.

• Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages at the Office of National Statistics.