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Councils told to seek 'radical' cost-saving changes

...Accountancy (Cipfa) conference on Wednesday, the minister told the audience that the coalition government was putting councils "back in control of their own destinies" through... Read more

14 September, 2010 by Kable

Government spends £3.75m on ContactPoint

...answer to Labour MP Tom Watson, published on Monday. In May, the coalition government announced plans to scrap the ContactPoint database, designed to hold information... Read more

14 July, 2010 by Kable

Government to curb council 'snooping' powers

...The coalition government will cut down the powers of local authorities to put citizens... Read more

5 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Government to consult businesses on e-crime policy

...The coalition government plans to invite British businesses to take part in shaping its... Read more

1 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner
Super-fast broadband for UK? Get creative, say ministers

Super-fast broadband for UK? Get creative, say ministers

With the new coalition government comes a change of approach for achieving super-fast broadband across... Read more

13 August, 2010 by Malcolm Corbett

Immigration caps could impact IT workers

The coalition government's plans to permanently cap non-EU migration could also limit... Read more

30 June, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

Government info chief's powers to increase

The coalition government is planning to give its chief information officer more power in... Read more

18 June, 2010 by Kable

Summary Care Records scheme revived by government

...to spread more professional and public awareness, has been restarted by the coalition government Read more

8 June, 2010 by Nick Heath

IT chiefs on list of highest-paid civil servants

As part of the coalition government's 'right to data', high earners' salaries have been made public... Read more

2 June, 2010 by Kable

Electronic medical records get clean bill of health

Coalition government gives records plan a thumbs-up in England... All NHS patients... Read more

11 October, 2010 by Jo Best

Open Data Institute will act as biz incubator

...at Southampton University. However, that scheme was scrapped in 2010 when the coalition government came in. Since then, though, the Tories have professed a keenness... Read more

23 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter

The government will introduce a bill to intercept a wider range of internet communications, including those on social networks, and give police wider surveillance powers Read more

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

ACTA stumbles in Germany

...the issue of ACTA has become a "complicated discussion" within Germany's coalition government, with the dominant and conservative CDU party in favour of ACTA... Read more

10 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Police set to launch three £30m e-crime hubs

...will be driven by the new National Crime Agency," he added. The coalition government's national security strategy, published in 2010, listed web security as... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Sade Laja

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

What the changes really mean for the public sector... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

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