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Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson said in a statement: "Worldwide, computers are responsible for the same quantity of carbon emissions as the airline industry. The Cabinet Office's Greening Government ICT report states energy consumption on the... [17 Jul 2008]
UK's Top Leaders Turn to SAS for Clear HR Perspectives
White Paper Reporting to the Prime Minister, who is also Minister for the Civil Service, the Cabinet Office plays a vital role at the very heart of the administration of the United Kingdom, with the responsibility of ensuring that the government achieves its... [03 Jul 2008]
Need for "radical change" in gov't data handling
News Cabinet secretary Gus O'Donnell also published a review of information security in government on Wednesday. Justice minister Michael Wills has called for a root-and-branch change in how the government handles citizen data. [26 Jun 2008]
Government racks up 100 data breaches
News The figures were revealed by justice minister Michael Wills in a written answer to Parliament in response to a question by shadow minister for the cabinet office Francis Maude. Whitehall has suffered a further 30 data breaches since it lost 25... [24 Jun 2008]
Cabinet minister's laptop stolen
News The PC, which was lost on Saturday, contained details of the Cabinet minister's constituency work, and some "restricted information", according to a spokesperson for the department for communities and local government. [18 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News We discussed the issue in a Cabinet meeting two months ago, I think we are going in the right direction. The national response to cyber attacks is co-ordinated by the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, which is part of the Cabinet Office. [16 Jun 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News The National Security Committee, unveiled by Brown on 3 July, comprises cabinet ministers, senior police and military personnel. More government funding will be pumped into security technologies, the prime minister has announced. [20 Mar 2008]
Faster speeds on the cards for Broadband Britain?
News The government has also asked industry lobbying association the Broadband Stakeholders Group to look at the economics of fibre deployment - specifically whether laying fibre to the home is viable without first deploying fibre to the cabinet. [22 Feb 2008]
Data sharing 'could sap public confidence'
News Naomi Eisenstadt, director of the Cabinet Office's Social Exclusion Task Force, said a large amount of informal data sharing already exists. However, Sir David Varney, the Prime Minister's adviser on public-service transformation, said the nature... [12 Nov 2007]
Ofcom consults on next generation access
News BT is reluctant to spend billions of pounds installing fibre to the home (FTTH) or fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) while regulations state it would have to give rival providers equivalent access to those connections. [27 Sep 2007]
Make tech greener, CIOs told
News Speaking at a European e-government conference in Lisbon, Cabinet Office minister Gillian Merron called on the UK's CIO Council to reduce the carbon footprint of government computers and improve the sustainability of public sector IT.silicon.com... [21 Sep 2007]
The CIO revolution in public sector IT: The next phase
Comment He will also work closely with relevant ministers and the senior leadership of the civil service, in particular Alexis Cleveland, the new director general of service transformation at the Cabinet Office. [31 Aug 2007]
Gov blasted over budget-bloating IT projects
News However, the Cabinet Office downplayed the news, saying it spent £12.4bn per year on IT projects and adding that £1bn over five years is a small percentage of the total. The Home Office denied it had deliberately delayed publishing the report until... [14 May 2007]
Shared services 'about more than cost savings'
News As a first move, Watmore said the Cabinet Office will join services with another big department as an example and the hope is that the rest of Whitehall will follow the departments' lead. In the case of the Cabinet Office, if it were to merge back... [30 Apr 2007]
Security breaches hit government databases
News Other government departments that have claimed there have been no security breaches of their databases over the past five years include the Cabinet Office; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Department for the Environment, Food and... [31 Oct 2006]
