Government u-turn on private finance for IT
News The government has scrapped the use of controversial Private Finance Initiative deals for public sector IT contracts following a catalogue of costly high-profile projects. One of the objectives of using the PFI model in IT was to introduce third...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
Treasury denies new tax on PCs
News Redston said that in a worst case scenario the removal of the Home Computing Initiative (HCI) from the Finance Bill would make employers liable for more national insurance contributions, and employees liable for higher income tax.
[May 3, 2006, 11:05]
Mike O'Brien becomes NHS IT minister
News He will also cover other areas relating to NHS efficiency, procurement and property management, including Private Finance Initiative and Local Improvement Finance Trusts (Lift). Mike O'Brien, MP for Warwickshire North, has been appointed as...
[June 10, 2009, 9:01]
Delayed MOT computer system suffers crash
News VOSA awarded the 10-year £230m private finance initiative contract to Siemens Business Services back in 2000, with the aim of rolling out the system to garages from May 2002. Alex Fiddes, director of the private vehicles sector at VOSA, told ZDNet...
[April 27, 2006, 16:50]
Malaysian government unveils IT initiatives
News The government is confident that this momentum will accelerate in the coming years," said Abdullah, who is also the country's minister of finance. To support this initiative, the Malaysian government is allocating a sum of 230 million ringgit (£32m...
[September 11, 2007, 13:09]
Ntl to spread broadband across Cambridgeshire
News This is the first time that a community broadband network has been financed under the government's Private Finance Initiative. Cable firm ntl announced on Tuesday that it has won a contract to build a community broadband network that will bring...
[September 24, 2002, 15:35]
MoD sends Skynet satellite into orbit
News Paradigm Secure Communications, a consortium of BAE Systems and EADS, won the private finance initiative (PFI) contract to develop Skynet 5 in 2003. The UK's second military communications satellite has gone into orbit.
[November 19, 2007, 11:43]
Courts' IT systems in the dock
News The Libra system is a private finance initiative, also benefiting from central government funding. The Lord Chancellor's Department hit another hurdle in its schedule for computerising the courts this week, when a consignment of new PCs ordered for...
[August 10, 2001, 11:27]
CSA IT 'a turkey from day one'
News In 2000 the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tried to remedy the situation by signing a £427m private finance initiative contract with EDS to deliver a new IT system. The Public Accounts Committee has concluded that reforms of the troubled...
[July 5, 2007, 15:15]
TfL explores options for Oyster replacement
News It could be broken up into a number of segments, each let individually rather than under a large private finance initiative, as in the existing arrangements. Transport for London may replace its Oyster card with with new ticketing systems operated...
[October 23, 2008, 9:28]
Northern Ireland launches online-security campaign
News Finance minister Peter Robinson announced the beginning of the initiative, an EU-funded effort that addresses issues such as ID theft, phishing, social networking and PC viruses. The Executive has joined an initiative run by the Republic of Ireland...
[February 12, 2008, 11:50]
Scottish gov't plans personal data cull
News Scotland finance secretary John Swinney said: "Public services which store and manage people's identity information must respect the privacy of individuals. Requiring private and voluntary bodies that deliver public services to stick to the principles
[September 3, 2009, 16:29]
