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Low demand for first day of Parliamentary Webcasts
News The first official Webcast of Parliamentary debates received a low-key response on Monday, with no more than 2,500 people logging on to the site in the first day. The Parliamentary Webcasts are an experimental pilot project, currently Webcasting...
[January 15, 2002, 17:38]
Parliamentary tech boss backs calls for gov't IT loans
News MP Andrew Miller, chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), supported calls for the government to establish the fund, which would be used to loan money to central and local government organisations.
[June 30, 2009, 8:31]
Police did not search parliamentary server
Blog The police did not access Damian Green's emails, or the parliamentary server, the speaker of the House has told MPs. Two Parliamentary inquiries have been ordered into the search of Green's office and his arrest.
[December 10, 2008, 12:40]
Lack of Parliamentary Control
Talkback To me this is another example of the Civil Service establishment with but vague ministerial approval introducing a grossly expensive scheme without proper approval in Parliament. While ministers and their immediate Civil Service subordinates should...
[August 5, 2008, 9:36]
Parliamentary report urges action on NPfIT
News The success of the NHS National Programme for IT is precarious, with key projects running late and suppliers struggling to deliver, according to a long-awaited report from Parliament's influential Public Accounts Committee.
[April 17, 2007, 10:17]
Parliamentary support builds for Nasa hacker
News Support is building in parliament and from legal experts for self-confessed Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon to be tried in the UK. Liberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, the independent reviewer of Britain's anti-terror laws, told ZDNet UK on...
[February 25, 2009, 15:38]
Zhirinovsky: 'I'll celebrate by hacking'
News Russia's maverick politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose ultra-nationalist bloc looks set to do well in a parliamentary election, said on Monday he would celebrate by hacking into Western computers. Zhirinovsky who has run and done reasonably well...
[December 20, 1999, 9:36]
Emergency data laws 'break Human Rights Act'
News Emergency data retention measures are likely to break European human rights laws, a joint Parliamentary committee said on Friday. The data retention measure will not be subject to any parliamentary scrutiny, and will not be published as a public...
[November 16, 2001, 16:27]
MoD refuses to account for missing computer equipment
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to respond to Parliamentary questions, tabled in late October, which revealed that nearly 600 computers had disappeared from the department in the last five years, according to a Liberal Democrat MP.
[January 15, 2002, 13:30]
A criminal lack of interest
Leader The British parliamentary system is a strange animal. As head of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), he's been forced to introduce a personal bill to tighten up the e-crime laws - one that has no chance whatsoever of succeeding...
[March 14, 2005, 13:55]
Parliament to probe Digital Britain plan
News A parliamentary select committee is to check whether the recommendations proposed in the Digital Britain report are realistic, particularly those regarding broadband speed. According to a parliamentary spokesperson, the select committee's inquiry...
[June 30, 2009, 12:47]
French MPs choose Linux over Windows
News When French MPs and their assistants return from their summer break this June, they will conduct parliamentary business on PCs running Ubuntu. At the time of the latest IT refresh for parliamentary assistants, France's parliament, the National...
[March 13, 2007, 9:03]
Department of Health dismisses NHS IT blame
News The Department of Health has hit back at a parliamentary report that criticises the NHS's multi-billion pound IT upgrade, claiming the analysis is out of date. The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by the Conservative MP Edward...
[April 17, 2007, 14:17]
Scrap data retention plans, say MPs
News An all-party parliamentary inquiry has recommended that the government drop its plans to make ISPs indiscriminately keep records of every email sent or received, and every Web site visited, by UK citizens.
[January 29, 2003, 15:50]
Parliament PCs struck by Downadup virus
News The outbreak first came to light after an email by the parliamentary director of ICT was leaked online on Thursday night. Engineers at parliament are working to "act swiftly to clean the computers that are infected", according to the email, the...
[March 30, 2009, 8:28]
Government hack attacks dropping
News In response to a series of parliamentary questions by Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow, government departments have revealed the level of hacking attempts against them in recent years. Don Touhig, undersecretary of state for defence, said in response...
[July 12, 2005, 9:15]
E-envoy disputes 800,000 job-loss quote
News Speaking at a Parliamentary hearing on Monday, Pinder told MPs he had been misquoted in reports that said 20 percent could be taken out of the cost of staffing over a decade with the introduction of e-services.
[May 15, 2002, 17:06]
Australian parliament fights spyware outbreak
News Australian Democrat Senator Brian Greig is drafting legislation which aims to better define, and in some cases outlaw spyware and adware, after his office found the computers on the parliamentary system had been compromised by more than 50...
[July 12, 2004, 9:35]
Speech and Debate Timekeeper
Downloads It has speech order and time limits preset for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. Spoken time signals or tones, including protected minute...
[February 13, 2009, 12:42]
Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News Ministers admitted in a response to a parliamentary question on Wednesday that equipment valued at a total of £102,553 has gone missing from one of the most secure buildings in Britain. The shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, John Bercow, has...
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
