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BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The Department of Health, Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Ministry of Defence would not reveal how many portable devices were temporarily out of action but the Government Car and Despatch... [04 Feb 2008]
Lie detector beats benefit fraud
News A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - which funded the pilot - told silicon.com the department will evaluate the technology when the trial is completed next May. He said the DWP... [03 Sep 2007]
Child Support Agency IT woes continue
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), to which the CSA belongs, is also criticised by the PAC for losing the ability to be an "intelligent customer" by outsourcing most of the CSA IT capability to EDS.silicon.com... [04 Jul 2007]
Failed: Seven out of 10 gov IT projects
News Seven in 10 government IT projects have failed, according to the chief information officer of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Speaking at the Government IT Summit this week, Joe Harley called for projects to... [18 May 2007]
Gov recruitment site gets record searches
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is hailing the success of its recruitment website www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk after it received a record 6.5 million job searches in one week. According to the... [10 May 2007]
Private dicks fined for data 'blagging' from DWP
News A firm of private investigators has found itself on the wrong side of the law after pleading guilty to unlawfully obtaining data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The company, Infofind, "blagged"... [24 Apr 2007]
Lie detector tech to snare benefit cheats?
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today announced a pilot of the technology by Harrow Council which will use voice risk analysis on would-be claimants to identify suspicious cases. Benefit cheats could be caught... [05 Apr 2007]
Fraud-hit tax credits website to remain closed
News The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) 'e-portal' was targeted by criminals who stole the identities and personal details of almost 13,000 staff at the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) and Network Rail and exploited poor... [19 Mar 2007]
DWP agrees £400m printing deal
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has agreed a £400m, seven-year printing contract with a group of companies including Accenture, EDS and Xerox. David Smith, DWP commercial director, said the... [02 Feb 2007]
How to slash £1bn from benefits bill - use IT
News In the 2005/06 financial year roughly £1.9bn was overpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as a result of errors in the benefits system - with the complex nature of the rules governing the benefits system... [26 Jan 2007]
Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News The government spends more that £12bn per year on IT, with the NHS and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) among the biggest spenders. The DWP spent £1.1bn on IT, more that HM Revenue & Customs,... [10 Jan 2007]
Five million benefits calls still unanswered
News The report by parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found that in 2004/2005 just over half of all calls to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) call centres were answered - leaving 21... [01 Nov 2006]
DWP CIO Joe Harley
Comment CIO jobs don't come much more challenging than at one of Whitehall's biggest central government departments, where staff refer to the work carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as "the daily miracle". [27 Jul 2006]
Whitehall fights to keep ID card cost report secret
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is appealing against an order by the UK's data protection watchdog to release a secret report on the costs, benefits and risks of introducing ID cards in the UK. [06 Jul 2006]
Child Support Agency IT costs rise to £1.1bn
News He said in a statement: "Ignoring ample warnings, the DWP, the CSA and IT contractor EDS introduced a large, complex IT system at the same time as restructuring the Agency. The Child Support Agency (CSA) IT system has... [30 Jun 2006]
