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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]
Whitehall failing to learn from decade of IT disasters
News Government departments are failing to learn the lessons from previous failed IT projects and continuing to repeat the same mistakes, according to a report by MPs. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, Achieving Value for Money in... [06 Dec 2005]
Whitehall tots up millions in Linux swap
News It has emerged that the government's decision to swap Linux for Microsoft could cost them dearly. Following Tony Blair's controversial visit to a demonstration of Microsoft's XP OS, a government insider has revealed that the exchange... [01 Jun 2001]
Cold water poured on Microsoft's Whitehall love-in
News Following public condemnation for its perceived overly-close relationship with Microsoft, the UK government has announced a framework to give itself a better deal when purchasing IT products. The Office of Government Commerce is now... [01 Mar 2002]
Lack of "balls" in Whitehall will hinder ID cards
News Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, former chairwoman of defence technology and security company QinetiQ, has questioned the wisdom of the UK ID card scheme, saying the current government lacks "the balls" to make the scheme mandatory. [18 Oct 2005]
100,000 hacker hits per day - Whitehall under siege
News The source, a former government intelligence expert, said that around 30 per cent of these are classified as "serious". These 30,000 attempted hacks involve an intelligent attempt to access government databases. [23 Mar 2001]
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]
Whitehall wiki experiment goes awry
News A senior government minister has vowed to continue experimenting with online engagement after his department's first move into wiki-policy ended in disarray. David Miliband, secretary of state for the Department for Environment, Food and... [07 Sep 2006]
'Compulsory' e-government part of £15bn Whitehall review
News Plans to squeeze efficiency gains of up to £15bn out of the workings of government could see people forced to use e-government services, and an overhaul in the way departments and local authorities use and buy IT. [16 Feb 2004]
£4.7bn Whitehall efficiency savings questioned
News The government's claims that it has achieved £4.7bn of efficiency savings have little evidence to back them up and should be taken "with a large pinch of salt", according to MPs. The government's efficiency and cost-cutting programme... [20 Jul 2006]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The government may be pushing employers to embrace more flexible and greener ways of working for their staff but new figures show Whitehall itself lagging some way behind the rest of the country. The number of civil... [30 Jul 2008]
Politicians and civil servants buddy up with e-community
News The UK government has set up a new system for transferring information between Parliament and Whitehall departments. In its first stage of development, the network will deliver parliamentary questions from the House of... [25 Nov 2004]
Ten government IT projects hit 'red light' status
News Whitehall has revealed some details of its 10 most 'at-risk' IT projects, following a Freedom of Information request. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has released details of IT projects found to be most at risk... [02 Mar 2005]
Local authorities on the road to digital nirvana
News Three hundred and sixty three of the 388 local authorities in England submitted Implementing Electronic Government (IEG) statements to Whitehall in time for this week's deadline - leaving just 25 laggards no where to be... [03 Aug 2001]
Hypocrisy rules OK: Senior MPs failing IT test
News This is despite recent government initiatives to encourage the use of IT in Whitehall and the country at large. The findings fly in the face of Tony Blair's commitment to online government and contradict government... [22 May 2001]
