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News The folk in Whitehall also launched a fast-track graduate scheme to unearth the next generation of IT leaders - to help deliver large scale IT-enabled business change. Age-old debates turning up the volume this year include the IT skills shortage... [17 Dec 2007]
Stories of the month - November 2007
News Encryption certainly seems to be the buzzword of the month - it could have saved a lot of red faces in Whitehall if only those HMRC CDs had been encrypted. This month started with an iPhone bang and ended on a data-loss whimper as the UK suffered... [29 Nov 2007]
Cabinet Office flexes its shared services
News In the Cabinet Office building on Whitehall, the modern foyer soon gives way to older tiled corridors and offices looking out into Admiralty Arch and Horse Guards' Parade. And the department's CIO Peter Court has a similar task of bolting on a... [25 Oct 2007]
Gov't launches tech talent search
News Gillian Merron, the minister for transformational government, said the scheme is designed to make sure the UK's best graduates have the chance to apply their skills to Whitehall's "complex and exciting" tech projects. [18 Oct 2007]
The carbon budget is coming...
News The Climate Change Bill has already been drafted by Whitehall and will create legislation that aims to reduce UK carbon dioxide emissions by 60 per cent through domestic and international action by 2050. [12 Oct 2007]
£1.5bn farm subsidy chaos: "Inept" planning blamed
News A report into the fiasco by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee has found implementation of the project started before the final specification and regulations for the subsidy scheme were agreed by the European Commission... [06 Sep 2007]
Tech to suffer in Brown's new look Whitehall?
News Parliamentary scrutiny of ID cards and other technological and scientific issues could be seriously undermined by the new administration's reorganisation of governmental departments, according to members of a crucial committee. [13 Jul 2007]
Government "wastes" £2.8bn a year on consultants
News A report by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found the public sector spent £2.8bn on consultants for the financial year 2005/2006, a rise of £700m in just two years. The government's annual bill for using external... [19 Jun 2007]
Gov CIO council told to "raise its game"
News The CIO council is headed by government CIO John Suffolk and includes senior board-level IT representatives of all major Whitehall departments. But in its Delivering successful IT-enabled business change report, Whitehall spending watchdog the... [05 Jun 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. Shared services is about more than saving money - but it is... [30 Apr 2007]
£45m in savings targeted by government SAP deal
News Whitehall has similar bulk purchasing agreements with the other major software vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun, which contributed to the £412m annual savings achieved by OGCbuying.solutions last year. [02 Mar 2007]
E-auctions slash Whitehall buying costs
News New types of electronic procurement and increased use of project management tools are helping to drive down the cost of government procurement. The public sector spends £125bn per year on goods and services, from pens and paper to major... [25 Jan 2007]
Spending bonanza to come in public sector IT
News Whitehall is looking for public sector organisations to share core tasks, such as HR, finance, IT and procurement, to reduce costs and promote the distribution of information across departments. The shift to shared services in the public sector... [12 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in the public sector
News Some senior Whitehall chiefs are worried about the NIR with one writing to another: "I conclude that we are setting ourselves up to fail. was ruled by two mega IT projects which both received opposition from their intended users. [21 Dec 2006]
ID cards still risk failure
News The scheme has become poisoned inside and outside Whitehall," he said in a statement. The government's ID card plan rethink is a step towards common sense - but the controversial plan still risks failure, according to academics. [20 Dec 2006]
