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News However, Sir David Varney, the Prime Minister's adviser on public-service transformation, said the nature of the data to be shared between government departments was still under discussion. Varney said: "There has to be a lot of careful thought...
[12 Nov 2007]
Comment In terms of the overall government strategy, Sir David Varney's report on service transformation is a vital component. It was encouraging therefore to see Gordon Brown appoint Varney as his adviser on public service transformation.
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment The Transformational Government report and Varney review have once again thrust IT up the government agenda, from big modernisation programmes such as NHS IT to the push for shared services. There is also more pressure on public sector efficiency...
[27 Jun 2007]
Comment Whereas the Gershon report was about cost reduction, the Varney update focuses on the improvement of public services, in addition to reducing cost. So there's little wonder that following public relations disasters like these and the drives for...
[20 Jun 2007]
CIO Analysis The Transformational Government report and Varney review have once again thrust IT up the government agenda, from big modernisation programmes such as NHS IT to the push for shared services. There is also more pressure on public sector efficiency...
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment The Varney Report will encourage the public sector to become a more service-oriented animal but it will still need outside expertise to accomplish this task, says Paul Bentham. Merely from the title of the report: Service transformation - a better...
[29 May 2007]
News HMRC chairman Sir David Varney said in a statement: "By managing the filing peak closely, enhancing our IT infrastructure and improving our system monitoring, we have successfully ensured that taxpayers have been able to file in time for the...
[03 Feb 2006]
News HMRC executive director David Varney told MPs before Christmas that he believed criminals had somehow obtained staff payroll records from the DWP. The UK's data protection watchdog has launched an investigation into the tax credit fraud fiasco that...
[24 Jan 2006]
News HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) executive director David Varney told MPs at a Public Accounts Committee meeting this week that the online tax credits claim service had been targeted by "virulent" organised criminal gangs from the first day it was...
[16 Dec 2005]
News HMRC chairman, David Varney in a statement: "We have achieved a settlement of this complex dispute with EDS agreeing to pay compensation. EDS is to shell out £71.25m to the UK government to settle the dispute over problems with the IT systems...
[22 Nov 2005]
News But BBC Technology CTO John Varney said it was about a good cultural fit with a supplier who "got what the BBC is" and not just about driving them down to unrealistic levels of savings. Varney was speaking at an SBS event at BBC TV Centre in London...
[25 Feb 2005]
News David Varney, HMRC executive chairman and until not long ago chairman of mobile operator mmO2, said in a statement: "IT will play a critical role in our ability to build an efficient new department. The CIO of the imminent HM Revenue and Customs...
[02 Sep 2004]
News The second-round shortlist of eight has now been sliced to three, with John Varney, the BBC's CTO, saying in a statement that the shortlisted companies were picked because they have "shown [the] cultural alignment with the BBC that is one of the...
[06 May 2004]
News John Varney, CTO of the BBC, said in a statement that the next stage of evaluation will not be just about technology expertise but also about "culture and fit" with the BBC. The BBC has revealed a shortlist containing the major IT services...
[06 Feb 2004]
News John Varney, the BBC's CTO, told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet UK that the winning bidder will have to buy BBC Technology as part of the deal. This isn't a reflection on the quality of BBC Technology's work," Varney insisted.
[28 Nov 2003]
News Chairman David Varney and CEO Peter Erskine will both receive 1.72 million shares. The awards will be closely reviewed by shareholders, who have slammed the company's decision to award Varney and Erskine fat cat bonuses on the completion of the...
[27 Nov 2001]
News Sukawaty joins chairman David Varney at the head of the compnay as it prepares to be spun-off later this year as part of BT's reorganisation. BT Wireless, the mobile phone unit of the UK incumbent telco, incorporating BT Cellnet, has named Andrew...
[09 Jul 2001]
News In related news, David Varney, who oversaw the demerger of British Gas, is to become chairman designate of BT Wireless later this month to guide the mobile arm through its own demerger. Varney said in a statement: "The stakes are high in the mobile...
[13 Jun 2001]
News Christine Varney, partner at US law firm, Hogan and Hartson, agreed, and she noted that in the US there is simply an obligation on the part of consumers to read the privacy policies of each site they give personal information to.
[08 Oct 1999]
News However, David Varney, chief executive, said this is not a reason to be complacent and claimed "nobody can be 100 per cent confident. British Gas will put just over 1,500 engineers on standby over the millennium period in case of Y2K-related...
[17 Sep 1999]
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