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MPs torch failed FiReControl project

The project to unify the IT of England's fire and rescue services has been called a 'complete failure' and a waste of £469m by a select committee Read more

20 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Multi-sourcing: CIOs tips on making it work for you - and your suppliers

...providers instead. Almost 40 per cent of CIOs surveyed by Harvey Nash/PA Consulting Group last year said they planned to increase their use of... Read more

3 February, 2012 by Nick Heath

Ofcom mulls mobile phone coverage for all

...Ireland has no more than 40 percent 3G population coverage. Ofcom commissioned PA Consulting to carry out case-study research into the causes of not... Read more

8 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Government meets service suppliers

...that met the minister were: Airwave Solutions; Cisco; Detica; McKesson; Northrop Grumman; PA Consulting; Parity; TCS (Tata); Tribal; Vertex; and Xerox. "Although renegotiating contracts in... Read more

1 October, 2010 by Kable
CIO Survey 2010 3

CIO Survey 2010 3

Now in its 12th year, and in association with PA Consulting Group, Harvey Nash publishes an industry leading survey to analyse the... Read more

25 August, 2010

Home Office rapped over data-protection breach

...of 84,000 prisoners' data. Although the data was lost by contractor PA Consulting, as the relevant data controller the Home Office was ultimately accountable... Read more

23 January, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Home Office axes data-loss firm's contract

The Home Office has terminated one of its contracts with PA Consulting, following the loss of 84,000 prisoners' data. The termination of... Read more

10 September, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Worker suspended over loss of prisoner data

A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all... Read more

22 August, 2008 by David Meyer

Home Office data loss included drug records

...000 records were on the device, lost in August 2008 by contractor PA Consulting. The department had previously said the lost memory stick held information... Read more

27 August, 2009 by Kable

Government confirms ID partner

...in place, the Home Secretary has announced. David Blunkett has confirmed that PA Consulting is to act as the "development partner" on the UK's... Read more

25 May, 2004 by Kable

Prisoner data breach firm paid £100m

PA Consulting also 'helping to deliver' ID cards project... The management consultancy firm... Read more

22 August, 2008 by Natasha Lomas

Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office

...prisoners last month and says it will push to recover its costs. PA Consulting Group (PA) has become the first company to have a government... Read more

10 September, 2008 by Nick Heath

Home Office loses data on 84,000 prisoners

PA Consulting in dock over lost USB stick... Unencrypted data on all 84... Read more

22 August, 2008 by Natasha Lomas
Business intelligence tools up for the recession

Business intelligence tools up for the recession

...wallets or budgets, it's a good lever for change," Bitterer says. PA Consulting's Taylor says BI-related processes must also be embedded into... Read more

28 November, 2008 by Cath Everett

Smart meters to be rolled out to 2m homes

...being be able to opt-out if they do not want one. PA Consulting, a company that analyses the energy market, described in an opinion... Read more

1 April, 2010 by Richard Thurston

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