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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 cuts £50m off major tech projects
News The nine projects now have a total estimated cost of £1.56bn, £50m less than the £1.61bn estimated cost given when the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last reported the projects' budgets in May.
[November 24, 2008, 13:56]
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]
DWP IT was not that impressive!
Talkback Still at least the DWP didn't lose any personal data. I tried to get pension forecasts and the system was unable to provide them until possibly next year. Ok part of the problem is with the Government constantly changing things, but the rest is...
[August 8, 2008, 15:13]
Councils sack staff over misuse of DWP data
News The DWP said it could not confirm the incidents, as they are a matter for councils. Local authorities have dismissed employees who viewed personal data on the Department for Work and Pensions' Customer Information System (CIS).
[August 10, 2009, 12:05]
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]
DWP predicts boost in annual IT budget
News Stephen Timms MP, a departmental minister, had indicated higher IT project spending in April, when he provided figures showing DWP would spend an average of £438m a year in 2008-10 on specific projects, compared with an average of £350m a year in...
[August 18, 2008, 10:40]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Union warns: HP job cuts threaten gov't IT
News EDS has major contracts with Whitehall departments including the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Ministry of Defence. HP are getting massive DWP and defence contracts without having to go through a tendering process.
[September 18, 2008, 8:29]
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]
Memo reveals multiple breaches of ID card database
News The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Department of Work and Pensions, were revealed in a DWP memo to housing benefit and council tax benefit staff on 15 January. In the DWP memo, the government department said...
[February 25, 2009, 15:59]
