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Public sector IT spending climb to continue
News Government spending on technology will continue to grow for at least the next four years, with local authority spending outpacing that of central government. Government IT spending will grow at an average 5.3 percent until 2009, compared with 4.5...
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News According to the DTI, these advisors will attempt to use public sector broadband spending as a lever to help "regional economic development and private sector investment. The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has announced several initiatives to...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
UK leads way on public IT spending
News UK spending is almost a quarter (23 percent) of this total, says the report titled ICT Spend in the European Public Sector. The UK spends more on public sector IT than any other European country, according to research published on 31 May, 2005.
[May 31, 2005, 16:40]
Doubt cast on £26bn IT savings claim
News Claims that £26.5bn has been cut from public spending under the Gershon programme to cut Whitehall costs have been called into doubt by a parliamentary report. The Treasury Committee's report calls for the government's spending watchdog, the...
[July 30, 2009, 9:53]
Socitm calls for increased council IT spend
News Its author John Serle acknowledged that this was before the full extent of the economic downturn became clear, and said councils will have to respond to the prospect of a sharp cut in public spending as well as the social pressures of a recession.
[January 26, 2009, 8:27]
Public sector mobile technology explosion predicted
News Public sector spending on ICT for mobile workers is set to increase by nearly five times over the next decade, according to research from market analyst Kable. Although annual UK investment is estimated to be about £900m in 2004/05, spending is...
[March 21, 2005, 16:20]
E-Commerce minister fleshes out rural broadband plans
News Douglas Alexander, the e-Commerce minister, will say on Tuesday evening that the government is looking to merge public sector telecommunications spending in an attempt to boost the availability of high-speed Internet services in rural areas.
[November 6, 2001, 17:30]
Europe's IT spending growth favours UK
News Britain is on track to become the dominant market for information and communications technology (ICT) in Europe this year, thanks in part to public-sector spending and the outsourcing boom. Figures released by the European Information Technology...
[February 25, 2004, 14:25]
Government shared-services spending to rocket
News Shared-services spending in the UK public sector is forecast to hit $1.27bn (£629m) in 2012, compared to just $311m this year, according to analyst Datamonitor. UK government spending on shared services is expected to rocket over the next five...
[September 6, 2007, 15:29]
Government consultancy spend criticised
News The NAO, which scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament, slammed the government in a report entitled "Central Government's Use of Consultants". This report found that the public sector spent a total of £2.8bn on consultancy, an increase...
[December 18, 2006, 13:13]
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. MPs and unions have lambasted the government for spending £3bn on external...
[June 19, 2007, 13:38]
Tech suppliers not being penalised for failures
News Public-sector suppliers are not being penalised when they fail to deliver, according to the government's spending watchdog. According to a report published on Tuesday by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), dealings between government and the...
[April 29, 2009, 15:55]
Customs criticised for £100m spend
News The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised HM Customs & Excise for spending millions on its e-government programme without being confident of the benefits for either itself or for UK businesses.
[June 22, 2004, 11:25]
Euro firms losing out on IT value
News Analytical tools company Alinean said public companies in Europe are spending almost twice the percentage of their revenue on IT than US companies. According to the study, which looked at about 9,000 public companies in the US and Europe, the...
[March 6, 2003, 10:52]
EC: European IT research is too 'fragmented'
News In a speech on Tuesday at the ICT 2008 symposium in Lyon, Viviane Reding pointed out that European spending on IT research and development — both public and private — remains far below that in the US.
[November 27, 2008, 9:33]
Scandinavian countries take e-government lead
News E-government spending across Western Europe will rise from $2.9bn (£1.64bn) in 2002 to $5.8bn in 2007, IDC said.s figures accounted for 16 percent of all public-sector spending on IT services. Switzerland is lagging behind other European countries...
[December 17, 2003, 16:45]
10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
News Edward Leigh MP, chairman of the PAC, said in the report: "If one lesson stands out from the work of the PAC over the years, it is that government departments are masters at spending public money but often far less proficient at ensuring that this...
[December 7, 2005, 9:00]
Darling announces IT spending cuts of £500m
News Some programmes will need to be stopped altogether," he said, announcing a sharp slowdown in public spending growth from 2011-12. The pre-budget report says £500m will be removed from the government's annual spending "from reducing spend on IT...
[December 10, 2009, 9:53]
Gov't stung by 'poor value' outsourcing deals
News Lacklustre controls on spending over the full lifetime of government outsourcing contracts are leading to "poor value for money" because public-sector organisations are lured by low upfront costs, claims Compass Management Consulting.
[April 7, 2008, 9:20]
2006 to be 'best year since the boom' for contractors
News Matthew Brown, managing director of Giant, said: "For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.
[February 6, 2006, 8:55]
