Public Accounts Committee
'Incompetent': Watchdog's verdict on prisoner database
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has branded the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis) a failure. For more, see... [03 Nov 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment Parliamentary watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has also uncovered instances of IT projects left rudderless by leadership changes. It's a hard lesson to learn - particularly for the... [17 Aug 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment Under the proposals reported in The Times yesterday, the Conservatives suggest an alternative to the Labour government's plan to create a central Summary Care Record for every patient within the NHS, a scheme currently running at least... [07 Jul 2009]
Bad tech suppliers not getting hit where it hurts
News According to a report published today by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), dealings between government and the vendors who provide the public sector's IT, facilities... [28 Apr 2009]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News Parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has been a longstanding critic of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and member Richard Bacon said he is amazed that the... [02 Apr 2009]
Westminster insiders on why gov't IT is doomed
News It was a view echoed by Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee and a fierce critic of the £12.7bn programme to modernise NHS IT.... [26 Mar 2009]
1980s computers hold up taxman's hunt
News According to a report by the Public Accounts Committee, the backlog that has been lengthened by delays in transferring cases from the 1980s PAYE computer system. Outdated computer... [24 Mar 2009]
NHS critical IT faults leap 80 per cent
News The figures were revealed in the wake of a critical report into the NPfIT by the parliamentary watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, which gave the Department of Health six months to... [02 Feb 2009]
Six-month 'kill or cure' deadline for NHS IT project
News A report released today by the parliamentary spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), labelled the DoH's progress on the CRS rollout as "very disappointing" and said its... [27 Jan 2009]
£7bn MoD IT project: Late, overbudget, unloved
News The £7.1bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) programme was intended to provide a single information infrastructure serving the army, navy, airforce and central MoD command but the project is now 18 months late and at least £182m... [15 Jan 2009]
£71m clawed back from IT tax credits chaos
News In 2008 chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Edward Leigh MP, warned that "HMRC must be prepared to return to the courts" to recoup the full amount from EDS if it was not repaid by... [06 Jan 2009]
Department for Transport "incompetence" over shared services
News But a report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the project was mismanaged: "There are three ways in which implementation can fail: through delay in introducing... [16 Dec 2008]
Web traders targeted in £2bn tax dodge crackdown
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has singled out individuals trading on the internet - along with the self-employed and buy-to-let landlords - as "new risks to tax revenue", caused by... [09 Dec 2008]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee, said of the project's missed deadlines and immature systems: "The programme is a reflection... [10 Nov 2008]
BBC puts software licensing in the spotlight
News The BBC Trust's response on the issue to parliamentary spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, has just been published. The BBC has pledged it will continue reviewing all of... [31 Oct 2008]
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