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The 11 IT projects costing DWP £1.6bn
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is investing more than £1.6bn in various tech projects up to 2011. The DWP has revealed which IT projects are being worked on along with how much each one is... [24 Nov 2008]
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]
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... [05 Jul 2007]
A litany of disasters has made shared services easy to swallow
Comment This strategy for shared services will span nine government sectors, including defence, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), education, health and the Home Office. In just the last few months, government shared... [20 Jun 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]
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)... [30 Jun 2006]
DWP to offshore IT jobs?
News Employees at the DWP, which employs more than 100,000 people and orchestrates the Child Support Agency (CSA), unemployment benefit and state pensions, are threatening to strike this week over proposed... [23 Jan 2006]
CSA IT work drags on
News According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), there are still 78,000 cases on the old system to be cleared, down from 130,000 a year ago. The DWP said no 'bulk' transfer of cases to the new... [22 Jul 2005]
Court database tracks down missing offenders
News Court staff will be able to discover the whereabouts of missing offenders who have changed address without notifying the courts by accessing the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) electronic Customer Information... [21 Jul 2005]
Government holds back £13.3m over CSA computer problems
News Tom Warsop, managing director of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) account at EDS said the new computer system is providing a day-to-day service to over 620,000 cases. He said progress is still being made and... [30 Mar 2005]
80,000 DWP computers fall over after upgrade
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees. [26 Nov 2004]
MPs slam "secretive approach" to IT project failures
News The DWP has also failed to address the report's demands for contingency plans, including the abandonment of the CSA IT system, if it is not working properly by 1 December 2004. The committee chairman, Sir Archy Kirkwood... [21 Oct 2004]
Porn probe claims civil servant scalps
News A spokesman for the DWP told silicon.com the Department regularly scans its systems to detect inappropriate materials on its network and said when any is discovered "disciplinary action will be taken and that can lead to... [26 Aug 2004]
MPs slam "appalling waste of public money" on failed IT projects
News The Work and Pensions select committee inquiry into the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) IT modernisation programme was launched following high-profile problems with the new Child Support Agency... [22 Jul 2004]
"Unreliable" £450m IT system delays child support cash
News Technical issues" were also cited by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as the reason for not being able to provide figures on the percentage of people who are not paying what they should. The... [25 Nov 2003]
