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News The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to SMEs in his 2008 Budget. Alastair Darling's Budget speech promised a variety of opportunities for the...
[12 Mar 2008]
News It will report in the autumn to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is also sniffing around fibre. The list from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more.
[22 Feb 2008]
News Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer, also updated Parliament on the review of HMRC processes and measures for protecting personal data. Transport secretary Ruth Kelly admitted to Parliament this week that a hard disk went missing from a...
[18 Dec 2007]
News The government needs to simplify organisational structures in some departments and review data-protection laws, Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has admitted. Vincent Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said he hoped the...
[18 Dec 2007]
Comment John H Woods, UK and as I have said before, Mr Darling has inherited this mess, if any chancellor is to be held accountable it should be one who held the reigns for more than a couple of months i.e.his predecessor, Mr Brown, who had ample...
[29 Nov 2007]
News But Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said: "The police inform me that they still have no evidence or intelligence that this data has fallen into the wrong hands and no evidence of fraud or criminal activity.
[29 Nov 2007]
News The emails will heap more pressure on Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, who failed to mention the details of this email exchange in his statement to MPs on Tuesday, despite it being included in the briefing paper to him from the NAO.
[23 Nov 2007]
News As the full story behind the HMRC breach continues to unfold, the Conservative Party is also claiming senior HMRC officials - and not the junior official blamed by Chancellor Alistair Darling - authorised the sending of the data.
[22 Nov 2007]
News SNP MP Stewart Hosie asked the Chancellor: "I am most concerned about the system failure, including as regards the implementation of guidelines, which allowed a junior official to copy the entire child benefit database on to a disc and post it...
[21 Nov 2007]
News The missing CDs were not reported to senior HMRC management until 8 November and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling was then notified on 10 November. Shadow Chancellor George Osborne called the security breach "catastrophic" and said...
[20 Nov 2007]
News Technology professionals have reacted angrily to tax changes announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling. The chancellor will raise this figure to 18 per cent on 1 April, 2008, to limit the profits of private-equity investors.
[15 Oct 2007]
News The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has estimated open source could save five per cent of the government's IT budget, which Gauke said would amount to £620m per year. The UK's failure to make use of open source is a "scandal", according to open...
[13 Sep 2007]
News Then Chancellor Gordon Brown announced in March 2006 that he was to pull the plug on the scheme, a decision which placed Evesham in a delicate financial position. Evesham Technology fell into administration on Friday, blaming the business' troubles...
[07 Aug 2007]
News Paul Stobart, CEO of software company Sage, told silicon.com his company has been investing more in its R&D efforts as a result of the tax credit scheme in recent years and it is a relief the Chancellor decided to improve and not do away with tax...
[22 Mar 2007]
News George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open source software. The shadow chancellor went on to applaud "software that's developed collectively", and criticised the government's...
[08 Mar 2007]
News Ian Leslie, pro-vice-chancellor for research at the university, said the pair will be researching nanoscience both in terms of how nanotechnology could be incorporated into displays and materials of a phone but also how the tech could be used to...
[07 Mar 2007]
News Lord Falconer, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, said in a statement: "Greater data-sharing within the public sector has the potential to be hugely beneficial to the public and is wholly compatible with proper...
[07 Feb 2007]
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has laid out a vision for how technology is going to transform education, while Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown emphasised how IT can help the UK face the challenges of globalisation.
[31 Jan 2007]
News Wipro revealed its expansion plans on Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's visit to India last week. Indian outsourcing giant Wipro is expanding its operations in the UK, creating 500 new jobs in the process.
[23 Jan 2007]
News Out of 100 sites tested in a UN commissioned study, only three met the minimum accessibility level: the UK Prime Minister's site and those of the German Chancellor and Spanish government. Only three per cent of the world's leading websites meet the...
[06 Dec 2006]
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