freedom of information secretary

Tony Mather

CIO Profile Tony Mather joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as CIO in May last year as a board member reporting directly to the department's permanent under secretary (equivalent to a private sector CEO). [11 Jun 2008]

ID card project gets new boss

News Meg Hillier is the new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity, with responsibilities that include the identity card project, Freedom of... [27 Jul 2007]

ID cards status to be made public

News But the chief secretary of the Treasury, Paul Boateng, said the information was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and would... [04 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: Don't de-fang the Freedom of Information Act

Comment News also broke that the government, through Constitutional Affairs Secretary of State - and prime ministerial buddy - Lord Falconer, is proposing making changes, ostensibly to cut the costs... [18 Oct 2006]

Who's in charge of government IT?

News At the Department for Constitutional Affairs, parliamentary under secretary of state Baroness Ashton of Upholland continues to be responsible for the Freedom... [23 May 2006]

Analysis: Can the public sector attract IT high-flyers?

Comment Ian Watmore left his position as UK managing director of Accenture to become the first government-wide CIO in 2004 and was last year promoted to his current permanent secretary role at the Cabinet Office... [20 Apr 2006]

'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'

News About 10,000 participants, including at least 45 world governmental leaders and UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, are scheduled to attend, along with top executives from Google, Intel, Microsoft and others. [15 Nov 2005]

Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator

News In December 2004, Coleman called for the resignation of UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, saying that his subcommittee's investigations had unearthed evidence of far-ranging fraud inside... [19 Oct 2005]

MPs slam "secretive approach" to IT project failures

News During a debate in the Commons, parliamentary under secretary of state for work and pensions Maria Eagle MP said: "The number of cases that are stuck has dropped from some 120,000 to... [21 Oct 2004]

Freedom of Information requests will be free

News Constitutional Affairs Secretary Lord Falconer has since said requests will cost nothing in the "vast majority" of cases and confirmed that any request costing under £450 to answer will be free. Set to... [20 Oct 2004]

World Summit on the Information Society kicks off

News The possibility of having to make a decision on the issue has been sidestepped, however, with UN secretary general Kofi Annan charged with convening a working group to discuss the matter. China had also... [10 Dec 2003]

Tech and US government building cyber defence

Comment Assistant Secretary Liscouski, former director of information assurance for Coca-Cola, seemed to think the task forces were moving in the right direction. Yet, while the government... [04 Dec 2003]

Good news about UK Online - it's getting there

Comment Trade and industry secretary of state Patricia Hewitt proudly announced she had so far established 2,000 online centres across the country. Some of this information... [04 Dec 2001]

Your 'secret' files to be opened by 2005

News According to The Guardian cabinet secretary Sir Richard Wilson advised the Prime Minister that it was better to delay further open government legislation until departments could cope with the Data Protection Act. [30 Oct 2001]

Blair appoints new e-minister

News The appointment comes three days after Hewitt was promoted to secretary of state for trade and industry. The 33-year-old MP was part of a backbench revolt against Jack Straw's amendments... [12 Jun 2001]

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