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Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project
News Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has issued a scathing attack on the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System. In a report on the programme, the committee describes it as a singular example of poor project...
[November 3, 2009, 7:49]
MPs condemn DfT shared-services failure
News Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has described the 'stupendous incompetence' of the Department for Transport's shared-services project. The computer system was inadequately procured and tested, unstable when it was switched on and on one...
[December 16, 2008, 9:13]
Tech shortcomings endanger troops
News A report from the Commons Public Accounts Committee says that British soldiers are at risk of death and injury from "friendly fire" because the Ministry of Defence has failed to develop a technological solution to identify friend or foe.
[May 2, 2007, 10:55]
Capgemini cashes in with government IT project
News Profits from its contract with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are providing Capgemini with an early Christmas present, according to a member of the Committee of Public Accounts The costs of HMRC's outsourced IT programme, known as Aspire, have...
[December 21, 2006, 7:22]
MPs attack IT 'mess' at Asset Recovery Agency
News A failure to invest in IT left the Assets Recovery Agency unable to manage either its case load or staff resources adequately, a report from the Public Accounts Committee, published on Friday, has claimed.
[October 15, 2007, 16:19]
E-government: Must try harder
News The Public Accounts Committee said on Wednesday that government departments must do more than simply provide information on their Web sites. More rapid progress now needs to be made to enable people to carry out transactions with government such as...
[August 28, 2002, 13:33]
Inland Revenue may miss online targets
News Fresh from lambasting the government for its faults in its approach to the Internet, the Public Accounts Committee has turned its attention to the Inland Revenue. In addition, potential users of the Inland Revenue's e-services will not be...
[August 29, 2002, 12:05]
Failed gov't IT projects cost £273m
News The figure was condemned by Public Accounts Committee member Richard Bacon, who labelled it a "shocking reflection on the failure of the government to get the basics [of IT projects] right". The Public Accounts Committee's Bacon, a long-time critic...
[October 21, 2008, 8:31]
Ministry of Defence criticised over EDS contract
News The union went on to say that it has "major concerns" about the contract and is writing to the Defence Select Committee and the Public Accounts Committee, calling for an investigation. We have major concerns about the contract and will be writing...
[January 11, 2007, 16:30]
Early warning failed to put NHS IT back on track
News Earlier this year, the parliamentary spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, described the Department of Health's progress on CRS as "very disappointing" and said if the deployment of the scheme did not improve, the department should...
[June 22, 2009, 11:05]
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]
Government urged to cut consultancy costs
News Parliament's all-party Public Accounts Committee has hit out at the government's "profligacy" for spending nearly £3bn on consultants, without a clear idea of the benefits. It is impossible to believe that the public are receiving anything like...
[June 19, 2007, 13:38]
'Inept' IT planning behind UK farm-subsidy chaos
News A report into the fiasco by Whitehall spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found implementation of the project started before the final specification and regulations for the subsidy scheme were agreed by the European Commission.
[September 6, 2007, 15:57]
MPs call for overhaul of Jobcentre IT
News The Commons Public Accounts Committee found that many of the shortcomings in the IT system are simple but irritating for agency's jobs and benefits advisers: for example, by requiring them to re-key identical information for every new customer, or...
[October 9, 2007, 14:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A report from the Public Accounts Committee says that a huge project to replace benefit claims system paperwork with a magnetic stripe card -- one of the first Private Finance Initiatives -- has wasted a billion pounds of our hard-won cash.
[December 7, 2001, 16:37]
Tech suppliers not being penalised for failures
News According to a report published on Tuesday by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), dealings between government and the vendors who provide the public sector's IT, facilities management and BPO services are far too comfortable.
[April 29, 2009, 15:55]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, Achieving Value for Money in the Delivery of Public Services, says that despite the PAC's reviews of many high-profile IT failures over the last decade many departments still disregard common and well...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
MPs warn of 3G mobile price sting
News The Public Accounts Committee published a report on Friday that warned that some 3G licence-holders may be forced to merge to avoid going out of business. The public accounts committee recommended that 3G operators should share networks wherever...
[April 26, 2002, 11:57]
DWP attacked over delays to benefit-fraud IT system
News The accusation was made in a report by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which said the department's new management-information system, known as Fraims, was only introduced in February this year.
[July 8, 2008, 11:51]
Gov't urged to prioritise inclusive web services
News The government must ensure those without web access are not excluded from public services, according to the Public Accounts Committee. Edward Leigh, chair of the committee, said officials should guard against focusing on the "sunlit digital uplands...
[April 29, 2008, 9:37]
