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DWP Downplays Security Breach
Blog The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that some of its staff have been forwarding passwords with password protected material. An email that was leaked on the 'Dizzy Thinks' blog on Thursday from DWP said:
[May 12, 2008, 15:36]
DWP Attacked Over Delays To Benefit-fraud IT System
News But in its report on Monday, PAC said the system does not cover key elements of the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP's) counter-fraud activity, most importantly the work of the prosecutions division.
[July 8, 2008, 11:51]
Courts Link Up With DWP Database
News Magistrates' courts are to be given access to databases held by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as part of an effort to crack down on criminals who avoid paying fines, ministers announced on Tuesday.
[November 30, 2004, 14:15]
Courts Link Up With DWP Database
Talkback "Magistrates' courts are to be given access to databases held by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)" I'm sure the DWP would like access to their database too.
[November 30, 2004, 22:06]
IT Fails To Staunch DWP Fraud Losses
News The figure is down from £2.7bn over the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) previous financial year, but was still deemed too high for the National Audit Office (NAO). Publishing the report, DWP Resource Accounts 2006-07, NAO head Sir John...
[July 26, 2007, 12:12]
DWP Punishes 20 Staff For Data-protection Breaches
News The two organisations are broadly comparable, as both process very large amounts of personal data and have similar staff sizes: more than 100,000 people work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), compared with 95,000 working for HMRC.
[June 4, 2008, 15:38]
UK Government Wakes Up To Firefox
News The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has pledged to make its Web sites compatible with as many browsers as possible, including the popular open source browser Firefox. Carl Mawson, the head of e-communications at the DWP, said on Wednesday that...
[August 25, 2005, 13:45]
Microsoft Upgrade Knocks Out 80,000 Government PCs
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) were unable to use their PCs this week after a routine software upgrade knocked out 80 percent of the PC in the sprawling department, which numbers some 100,000 employees.
[November 26, 2004, 11:10]
1,500 Government Staff Hit By ID Theft Scam
News Criminals have stolen the identities of 1,500 Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff and used them to make fraudulent claims on the government's tax credits Web site. The fraud came to light during compliance checks by HMRC and a criminal...
[December 5, 2005, 8:25]
Disaster Recovery System Ensures 100% Uptime
White Papers Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), the largest municipally owned utility in the nation, is responsible for serving 3.8 million people and businesses in a 464-square-mile area. When the DWP decided to replace its existing Disaster...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Tries To Keep ID Card Costs Secret
News The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is appealing against an order by the UK's data-protection watchdog to release a secret report on the costs, benefits and risks of introducing ID cards in the UK.
[July 6, 2006, 16:35]
Government Admits Over 850 Laptops Lost Since 2002
News Staff at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have reported 248 laptops lost, stolen or missing between 2002, the department's first full year of existence, and 2007. The information was provided in a written parliamentary answer by DWP...
[March 27, 2008, 16:01]
Benefit Discs Threaten New Data Scare
News A DWP spokesperson told GC News that it was investigating claims that an ex-contractor had held two discs with thousands of benefit claimants' details for more than a year. The contractor told the News of the World that she forgot to return them...
[December 4, 2007, 7:37]
EDS: The Single Point Of Failure
Leader That was the reaction from Liberal Democrat IT spokesperson Richard Allan to the spectacular desktop crash at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) last week. After the Child Support Agency (CSA) debacle earlier this month, when it emerged that...
[November 29, 2004, 12:35]
EDS: The Single Point Of Failure
Talkback I work for EDS and currently work on the DWP project. To ensure both our customers and the DWP 'customers' weren't inconvenienced and business went along as usual. It's understandable that people and the meida are quick to jump on the bandwagon of...
[November 29, 2004, 16:11]
Government Ordered To Release Secret ID Card Report
News The decision follows a complaint by Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten in 2004 after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refused his request in a parliamentary question to publicly release its ID cards feasibility report.
[June 9, 2006, 16:05]
Government Must Demand Project Accountability - Report
News The report, issued by Parliament's inquiry into IT failures at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), recommends that the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) which monitors IT projects, is expanded and strengthened.
[July 23, 2004, 10:35]
New Public-sector IT Head To Manage £3bn Budget
News He will be responsible for the DWP's £3bn IT programme, which underpins all of the departments modernisation efforts. Harley is to report directly to Richard Mottram, the permanent secretary at the DWP.
[May 10, 2004, 11:00]
Government Rejects IT Recommendations
News The DWP has also failed to address the report's demands for contingency plans, including the abandonment of the CSA IT system, if it is not working properly by 1 December 2004. The committee chairman, Sir Archy Kirkwood MP, said the DWP had failed...
[October 22, 2004, 10:10]
Burn: NPfIT Has 'failed So Far'
Blog The junior doctors absurdity, the mind-numbing ID Card cost escalations and a host of others -- the DWP benefit payments, MoD procurement -- you can go on listing these forever. The DWP payments programme handles 100 billion transactions a week.
[June 1, 2007, 17:13]
