Foreign Office Reports Five Data Breaches Since 2007
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has reported five significant data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office in the last financial year. The accounts show that, in September 2007, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) lost data on...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Watchdog Warns Foreign Office Over Data Breach
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been found to have breached the Data Protection Act following an investigation. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) after Channel 4 News alerted...
[November 14, 2007, 14:50]
FCO Admits Overnight Energy Waste
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been leaving about 10,000 computers switched on overnight. In response to a parliamentary question from shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth, minister Meg Munn said that on the assumption that each...
[September 29, 2008, 10:55]
Foreign Office Overspend Sees IT Projects Trimmed
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has overspent on two IT projects, forcing it to rethink some of its development plans. The funding figures were revealed in a written answer to Parliament by Foreign Office minister Meg Munn.
[July 8, 2008, 9:01]
FCO On Course To Deliver IT Efficiency Savings
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has insisted that it is on course to deliver on its £120m efficiency savings target by the end of 2007-08. In a review of its annual report for 2006-07, published on 19 November, 2007, the Commons Foreign Affairs...
[November 20, 2007, 8:30]
LogicaCMG Wins UK Embassy Web Deal
News As part of the five-year deal, LogicaCMG will completely replace the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) current web platform, which handles 24 million visitors per year, such as British travellers looking for advice on the safety of countries...
[February 20, 2007, 7:41]
Taskforce 2000: Stay At Home For A Month
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has produced a great deal of data and some of it is pretty awful," he said. His remarks follow the release of a Foreign and Commonwealth report on international millennium-bug preparedness.
[September 15, 1999, 17:19]
Biometrics Land At Gatwick
News UKvisas, a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit that runs the UK's visa service, is already collecting fingerprints from visa applicants in more than 100 countries around the world.
[October 10, 2007, 8:30]
ID Cards: Cost Of Scheme Set-up Rises 37 Percent
News The consultation will also discuss whether IPS should recover all its costs through charges for products, or whether it should charge separately for registration on the National Identity Register; whether some groups, such as the elderly, should...
[May 8, 2008, 8:29]
E-government Plans Criticised
News At an award ceremony in London, Moray Angus, head of the new media unit at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, added his voice to the criticism as he accepted an award for best government Web site. More co-ordination is needed within the Cabinet...
[March 28, 2000, 10:17]
Gov't Puts Next-gen Telecoms Network Out To Tender
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said the Ocean Programme is geared towards encouraging increased "working across government", supporting "communications across the whole of the public sector" and providing for a "more flexible workforce".
[August 6, 2008, 9:33]
Gov't May Standardise Public-sector Comms Networks
News A starting point could come with procurement of a new network for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, due to begin during the summer. Speaking at the Tower 08 conference, organised by the Cabinet Office and IT industry association Intellect, Suffolk...
[March 12, 2008, 15:19]
Government Continues To Stonewall Over ID Card Costs
News Central government departments who say they have yet to finalise their estimates of the cost of using ID cards or even what services they will be useful for include the Ministry of Defence; the Department for Transport; the Department for...
[February 20, 2006, 11:30]
DWP Punishes 20 Staff For Data-protection Breaches
News Other departments that said they had not disciplined any staff over the last three years on these grounds, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Department for Children, School and Families...
[June 4, 2008, 15:38]
HP Lands £320m Government Deal
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is to spend £320m on a public private partnership (PPP) deal with HP for the upgrade of its global IT infrastructure. The FCO said the seven-year deal is based on a "joint delivery model" rather than a...
[February 18, 2005, 14:55]
New NPfIT Minister Announced
News He was appointed parliamentary secretary for the Privy Council in May 2002 following his role as parliamentary under-secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Ben Bradshaw MP's new role as minister of state for health services was announced...
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
Worker Suspended Over Loss Of Prisoner Data
News The firm also has a logistics research contract with the Ministry of Defence, and provides web design for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This month, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office reported five data breaches since 2007, and the Ministry...
[August 22, 2008, 12:40]
UK Failing To Exploit Open Source
News The Treasury runs open source on less than six percent of its servers and less than one percent of its overall IT infrastructure, with the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Department for...
[September 13, 2007, 11:49]
BBC Wonga
Blog It would be much fairer on the viewers to pay for the BBC from general taxation (as parts of it are - the World Service lives on postal orders from its uncle in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), but that's even more dangerous - it would be...
[February 21, 2007, 12:21]
Met Office Forecasts SOA Pay-off
News We have many customer relationships across government, with people like Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs], the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] — all sorts of different agencies of government — in the same way that we...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
