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RSS Commons HouseOCRI Pre-Budget Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
White Paper Canada is facing serious international competition from emerging markets in countries such as China and India including access to talent, and access to investment capital. As such, Canadians need to increase private and public sector investment to... [03 Jul 2008]
Summary of Performance Against SR2002 Public Service Agreement Objectives and Targets
White Paper The MoD also cooperated closely with the House of Commons Public Accounts and Defense Committees and with the National Audit Office during their own enquiries into the earlier phases of Operation TELIC. [03 Jul 2008]
Outlawed: Reckless loss of data
News Liberal Democrat Lady Miller won support of the House of Lords for the proposed amendment to make reckless data loss a criminal offence, but this was changed to a civil offence when the criminal justice bill was approved by the House of Commons on... [12 May 2008]
House of Lords backs data loss law change
News The amendment must be sanctioned by the House of Commons before it can become part of the bill. Losing personal data took a step closer to becoming a criminal offence after the House of Lords backed a change in the law. [28 Apr 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News Gordon Brown presented the government's National Security Strategy to the House of Commons yesterday, outlining plans designed to improve the UK's response to terrorist and criminal threats, among others. [20 Mar 2008]
Taxpayer stung by £2.25m HMRC apology
News Financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy, revealed the cost in written answers to the House of Commons. The seven figure bill provoked outrage from the Taxpayer's Alliance who attacked the HMRC for losing the two CDs after it posted them... [17 Jan 2008]
NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project
News Some pilots of the summary care record have now started but a recent report by the House of Commons Health Select Committee found the scope, capability and timetable for the more detailed local record to be "vague and inconsistent". [27 Dec 2007]
Lost Revenue CDs 'worth £1.5bn to criminals'
News Liberal Democrat acting leader Vince Cable, speaking in the House of Commons, said a single stolen identity is worth £60 on the black market. I specifically said in my statement that the House would understand that because the investigation was... [29 Nov 2007]
Minister calls for ID cards review
News Speaking at a joint House of Commons and House of Lords select committee on human rights, the data protection minister Michael Wills admitted he was not informed about the HMRC data breach before Alistair Darling's public statement last week. [27 Nov 2007]
Gordon Brown orders data security spot checks
News During Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons yesterday, he said: "We will give the Information Commissioner the power to spot check departments, to do everything in his power and our power to secure the protection of data. [22 Nov 2007]
How did 25 million records get 'lost in the post'?
News In a statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, revealed the full scale of the data loss to gasps from MPs. The loss by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of two CDs crammed with sensitive... [21 Nov 2007]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News The House of Commons Select Committee on Transport today said Galileo is suffering from an "alarming" absence of information about its costs and benefits. A European project to monitor the continent's climate from space could provide a boost in the... [12 Nov 2007]
e-Borders to cost £1bn over next decade
News Speaking to the House of Commons on 25 July, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said electronic screening of travellers is an essential counter-terrorism measure as the first line of defence against terrorism is overseas, where people begin journeys to... [02 Aug 2007]
Tech to suffer in Brown's new look Whitehall?
News Brian Iddon, MP for Bolton South East and a member of the House of Commons science and technology select committee, said proper oversight of scientific and technological issues could be threatened by the abolition of both the Department of Trade... [13 Jul 2007]
BlackBerrys to be voted into the Commons
News The sight of bored MPs slouching in the House of Commons as a long speech drones on could soon be a thing of the past, as moves are afoot to allow MPs to take BlackBerrys into the debating chamber. A report by the Commons Modernisation Committee... [20 Jun 2007]
