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UK citizens shun e-government services
News The DfES report is based on feedback from UK Online managers and an online survey of the centres, which are supported by the Treasury's capital modernisation fund. Awareness and use of e-government services through the network of 6,000 UK Online...
[April 5, 2005, 15:55]
US agencies want ways to spend $20bn on IT
News There's just a pell-mell rush to get rid of a ton of money before it goes back to the treasury," FedLeads chief executive Keith Bickel said. One reason for the expected hike is growing IT spending by the Department of Homeland Security, according...
[September 3, 2003, 11:10]
Timms: Home workers will need fibre access
News A former Treasury official, his current responsibility for UK e-commerce and competitiveness came about with his appointment to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in July of this year.
[October 19, 2007, 16:06]
Defra running 13 projects worth £289m
News The information on Defra was released by minister Huw Irranca-Davies in response to a parliamentary written question from shadow treasury minister Mark Hoban on 12 November, 2008, while the earlier figures from February were released to Liberal...
[November 17, 2008, 17:04]
UK to miss EU e-commerce deadline
News The Treasury will also be launching a separate consultation on implementation of the Directive in the financial services sector. The e-commerce industry is worth £57bn in the UK alone, according to statistics from the Department of Trade and...
[January 11, 2002, 12:55]
Gov't writes off £24m on failed IT project
News The £24.4m write-off on the Scope programme — a secure electronic comms network aimed at improving information sharing across 10 government departments and security and intelligence agencies — was approved by the Treasury after phase two of the...
[July 20, 2009, 8:29]
DTI to give SMEs help online
News Chief secretary to the Treasury Paul Boateng said: "I am delighted that the potential advantages identified by the West Midlands and Haringey pilots have contributed to the process of breaking down the barriers facing SMEs when trying to do...
[January 11, 2005, 14:50]
US to create 'risk assessments' of air passengers
News Once collected, the data is fed into the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, an "overarching law enforcement information collection, targeting, and sharing environment," according to a DHS document.
[December 5, 2006, 11:45]
Government urged to be bold with IT projects
News We need to be able to provide the hard evidence that the Treasury should be spending on technology and not doctors and nurses," he said. The Department of Health needs to take risks. Industry experts have warned that the government needs to take...
[October 29, 2003, 16:35]
Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, John Bercow, has been posing written parliamentary questions on stolen ministry property to all government departments in the last fortnight. Earlier this month, The Ministry of Defence (MoD) refused to...
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
EU rejects US opposition to privacy directive
News Last month, the US Treasury and Commerce Departments asked the European Commission to delay approval of a "model contract" that financial institutions would be asked to sign before transferring personal data to non-EU countries.
[May 8, 2001, 16:05]
Whitehall warms to benefits of offshoring
News Central government departments are already considering the offshoring of IT under the Operational Efficiency Programme, the Treasury's drive to cut £7.2bn off central government's annual IT and back-office costs, while a report into how much other...
[August 4, 2009, 13:25]
UK needs to find its 'high-end' IT niche
News The next stage in the work of the i2010 working group will be a meeting in June, to which Margaret Hodge, the minister of state for industry and the regions, has invited Stephen Timms, of the Treasury, and Bill Rammell, the minister of state for...
[May 9, 2007, 17:33]
US Senate reins in ID card act
News It also would try to siphon off opposition on privacy or federalism grounds from state legislators by offering fat cheques — $1.5bn (£750m) over five years — with funds coming from the US Treasury. That framework is estimated to cost $23.1bn...
[June 28, 2007, 12:33]
Malware hits 8pc of Commons computers
News Treasury minister Angela Eagle said that out of her department's 1,600 computers, malware had been detected and removed from four. Health minister Ben Bradshaw said there were no instances of malware at the Department of Health, while ministers for...
[May 21, 2009, 9:19]
IRS Human Capital: Hiring and Attrition of Employees in Compliance Occupations
White Papers A significant amount of research has focused on employee turnover. Previous research has explored the relationship of wages, human capital, and demographics to the length of employee tenure in a job or organization.
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
