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Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News The DWP spent £1.1bn on IT, more that HM Revenue & Customs, which spent £989m and the Ministry of Defence, which shelled out £936m. HM Revenue & Customs - £989m Ministry of Defence - £936m The government spends more that £12bn per year on IT, with... [10 Jan 2007]
CBEC Improves Efficiency and Productivity
White Paper The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is part of the Department of Revenue under the Ministry of Finance in India. CBEC wanted to reduce the number of manual tasks associated with processing import and export documents and lower costs. [09 Mar 2006]
Reports in full: HMRC and MoD data breaches
News The IPCC was looking into events leading up to the loss of data and considering whether any criminal conduct or disciplinary offences had been committed by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) staff. Problems of this nature arose out of the merger of the... [26 Jun 2008]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue & Customs' loss of 25 million child... [04 Feb 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement action against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for breaching the Data Protection Act. Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK... [25 Jun 2008]
The CIOs transforming government IT
Comment The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Ministry of Defence. The Transformational Government report and Varney review have once again thrust IT up the government agenda, from big... [27 Jun 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
CIO Analysis The biggest spenders were the NHS, the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs and the Ministry of Defence. The Transformational Government report and Varney review have once again thrust IT up the government agenda, from big... [06 Jun 2007]
UK must overhaul data sharing rules
News The Data Sharing Review found that measures were needed to restore public trust in the way Whitehall handles information in the wake of high profiled data breaches, such as HM Revenue & Customs losing 25 million people's personal data and the... [11 Jul 2008]
Whitehall laptop ban hits driving agency performance
News The ban on removal of laptops and portable devices with unencrypted personal data was introduced across all government departments in the wake of a string of high profile data losses, including the loss of 600,000 personnel details by the Ministry... [04 Apr 2008]
French government puts tax returns online
News Deloitte and Touche and networking company CF6, are behind the scheme, which is due to launch by the end or March, that will enable SMEs, as well as the general public, to file tax returns and declare goods to Customs electronically. [15 Mar 2000]
ICO: Make 'reckless' data loss an offence
News Recent data breaches include the loss of 25 million details by HM Revenue & Customs, reported last November, and the more recent loss of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 3,700 people's bank details, as well as other data on up to 600,000... [31 Jan 2008]
ICL ploughs ahead with Maff contract
News The company recently won a PFI (private finance initiative) contract with HM Customs & Excise to the value of £500m, along with contracts for the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Magistrate's Courts [22 Apr 1999]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News HM Revenue & Customs admitted it was forced to cough up £2.25m to send out letters of apology to the 25 million people whose records it lost on two CDs and the theft of a Ministry of Defence laptop containing 600,000 records prompted a ban on all... [30 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs containing 25 million child benefit records has reverberated throughout the public sector with seismic proportions. The Ministry of Defence gave the green light to supply the... [19 Dec 2007]
Whitehall staff banned from removing laptops
News Sir Edmund Burton, chairman of the Information Advisory Council, is examining weaknesses in the MoD data security procedures and there is an ongoing cross-government review of data handling following HM Revenue and Customs' loss of 25 million... [22 Jan 2008]
