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MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News A group of MPs wants to see tougher sanctions for government bodies that commit serious breaches of data-protection law. The MPs also welcomed the government's pledge to give the information commissioner greater powers to carry out unannounced spot...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback If the MPs are unhappy with BTs dominance why dont they buy it back and make it state run again?
[February 10, 2004, 18:52]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback I do wish MPs would not interfere in areas they patently do not understand, but rather concentrate on issues which they could do something about, like sorting out the situation on the roads where such a high percentage of drivers drive untaxed and...
[February 23, 2004, 9:07]
MPs hit by Office 2003, Word 2007 incompatibility
News The Mircrosoft Office 2003 software used by the UK's 646 MPs and 742 peers is incompatible with Microsoft Word 2007 document formats, leaving politicians and civil servants unable to read some correspondence.
[November 27, 2008, 7:20]
MPs demand DRM safeguards
Talkback Before demanding safeguards, would the MPs be so kind to reveal to the public as to what they think DRM is really all about? Because illegally installed rootkits for commercial purposes here and there ain't half of it.
[June 7, 2006, 0:21]
MPs demand spam protection for businesses
Talkback MPs Should address the issues of poor hospitals, schools policing etc companies getting spam, is a very low priority issue as far as I am concerned. We all receive unwanted e-mail, however if the MPs want a real issue what about all the spam, that...
[October 6, 2003, 19:28]
MPs: Open source faces exclusion in schools
News A group of MPs have accused a government agency of restricting schools from deploying open-source software. Nineteen MPs, led by former teacher John Pugh, are backing a parliamentary motion which claims that Becta (British Educational...
[November 27, 2006, 13:37]
MPs demand DRM safeguards
News MPs and peers have called for clarity in the law regarding digital rights management (DRM), to make it clear that companies using technical protection measures (TPM) such as Sony BMG's rootkit-like technology could be prosecuted.
[June 5, 2006, 17:15]
MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance
Talkback There are a number of issues here but what MPs have to try to appreciate is that the UK is relatively small island with a mere 60m or so inhabitants. In short, there is not the critical mass neccessary to sustain more than one large provider of...
[February 12, 2004, 10:34]
HMRC site goes down, MPs can't file tax returns
Blog Meanwhile, HMRC put out another statement admitting that some MPs were also unable to file their tax returns, because their taxpayer reference numbers were not recognised on the authentication system.
[January 31, 2008, 16:52]
MPs put the boot into IR35
News An influential group of MPs from across the political spectrum have urged the government to review the controversial IR35 tax, claiming that it is causing significant damage to the UK's army of freelance workers.
[July 30, 2003, 18:45]
MPs reject international security standard
News MPs have snubbed an internationally accredited IT security standard promoted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The House of Commons Commission is a supervisory body of MPs who oversee the administration of the House.
[August 8, 2003, 9:45]
MPs: Government must subsidise rural broadband
News The government's rural broadband strategy has been slammed by a committee of MPs, who have demanded that greater efforts be made to make high-speed Internet services available across the whole of the UK.
[July 15, 2003, 11:48]
MPs diss government's online plans
News A report published Thursday reveals scant belief among MPs in the government's ability to put all its services online by 2005. Ironically those same MPs have revealed that less than half of them have an email address.
[September 21, 2000, 16:20]
MPs will not drop Web sites during general election
News Former MPs will not be required to remove personal Web sites inaccurately describing them as Members of Parliament during the general election. The former deputy speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Morris, is calling for MPs to take down their...
[April 25, 2001, 12:13]
MPs urge Johnson to halt McKinnon extradition
News A cross-party group of senior MPs is meeting home secretary Alan Johnson on Wednesday to request clemency for Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon. MPs Michael Meacher, David Davis and Chris Huhne set up the meeting to discuss McKinnon's predicament and to...
[September 9, 2009, 14:24]
MPs condemn BBC outsourcing costs
News The BBC's £1.5bn IT outsourcing deal with Siemens Business Services has come under fire from MPs for over-estimating cost savings and for key projects running late and over budget. Performance management by the BBC also comes under fire from MPs in...
[June 28, 2007, 9:47]
MPs pan NHS care-records rollout
News MPs have slammed the delays and lack of progress in rolling out a national system of electronic patient records, a key plank of the government's £12.4bn NHS IT project. The MPs criticised Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for the...
[September 14, 2007, 9:23]
MPs attack 'flimsy' gov't sums on shared services
News MPs have said that the government's belief it could save £1.4bn a year through shared corporate services is a "flimsy estimate at best". The venture needs to attract a further 22 customers to break even, and approximately 180 more customers to...
[May 8, 2008, 11:32]
MPs say snooping laws need ring fence
News MPs have warned that government agencies must stop using a range of laws to demand access to records of people's surfing activities if ISPs are not to be forced out of business. MPs say the only solution is legislation to ring-fence access to...
[February 3, 2003, 16:41]
