HMRC still owed millions by EDS
News PAC chairman Edward Leigh MP warned that "HMRC must be prepared to return to the courts" to recoup the full amount from EDS if it is not repaid by the end of 2008. In a statement, PAC chairman Leigh said: "The tax-credits situation is as serious as...
[February 6, 2008, 9:40]
Department of Health dismisses NHS IT blame
News The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by the Conservative MP Edward Leigh, issued a report on Tuesday that criticised the NHS's National Programme for IT (NPfIT) over its failure to meet budgets and delivery times.
[April 17, 2007, 14:17]
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News Without that knowledge, there can be no driving out waste and freeing up money to improve services to citizens," said Edward Leigh MP, chair of PAC. MPs have said that the government's belief it could save £1.4bn a year through shared corporate...
[May 8, 2008, 11:32]
Spending watchdog attacks Government's record on IT
News Basic errors are repeated time and again," said Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, speaking at the time. The National Audit Office (NAO) has cast doubt on the Government's claim that it can realise significant public sector savings by investing...
[February 17, 2006, 13:55]
MPs savage NHS IT delays
News PAC chairman Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, concluded that the NHS IT programme is "not yet working fully on the ground" and said the committee will ask the NAO for another report on its progress at a later date.
[June 28, 2006, 17:10]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, said in the report: "If one lesson stands out from the work of the PAC over the years, it is that government departments are masters at spending public money but often far less proficient at ensuring that this...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
Tax credit IT system condemned
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of PAC, said there is still a lot of work to be done to get the tax credits working fairly and effectively but questioned the department's ability to do this, especially given that staff are also tackling the backlog of...
[September 8, 2005, 9:25]
'Inept' IT planning behind UK farm-subsidy chaos
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, blamed the failures on bad decision-making, poor planning, incomplete testing of IT systems, confused lines of responsibility and a failure by the management team to face up to the unfolding crisis.
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
Government CIO Council 'must raise its game'
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, said in the report: "If more large IT projects are to be similarly successful, then departments will have to understand what was done to make things go right. The government's CIO Council has been told by MPs...
[June 5, 2007, 12:21]
Darling blames officials for data loss
News Edward Leigh MP, chair of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee, said he had already established that the NAO only asked for the national insurance numbers, not all of the details that were on the discs.
[November 21, 2007, 7:16]
MPs condemn BBC outsourcing costs
News Edward Leigh MP, chair of the PAC, said in the report: "The BBC's approach to the contract has been distinctly second-rate. The BBC's £1.5bn IT outsourcing deal with Siemens Business Services has come under fire from MPs for over-estimating cost...
[June 28, 2007, 9:47]
The Blair IT projects
News Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, was outraged when the National Audit Office subsequently picked through the wreckage: "Ignoring ample warnings, the DWP, the CSA and IT contractor EDS introduced a large, complex IT system...
[June 27, 2007, 12:08]
Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project
News Edward Leigh MP, chair of the PAC, said: "This committee has become inured to the dismal procession of government IT failures which have passed before us; but even we were surprised by the extent of the failure of C-Nomis, the ambitious project to...
[November 3, 2009, 7:49]
