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UK Leads Way On Public IT Spending
News The high level of spending is mainly due to big investments made in e-government and back office infrastructure. UK spending is almost a quarter (23 percent) of this total, says the report titled ICT Spend in the European Public Sector.
[May 31, 2005, 16:40]
UK Government IT Spend To Top £12bn
News Just last month e-envoy Andrew Pinder proposed the creation of a UK government CIO to merge his role with that of the head of spending watchdog the Office of Government Commerce. The UK government will spend almost $20bn on technology this year but...
[October 20, 2003, 14:30]
IT Spending Soars In Financial Sector
News But in contrast, local government and the health sector are shirking away from spending on their IT. IT bosses in central government predicted they will spend an average of 2.6 percent less over the coming year.
[November 6, 2006, 12:59]
Oracle Does UK Government Deal
News Previously, various UK government agencies bought software from Oracle independently of one another, negotiating different prices. Earlier this week, an Oracle executive said the company is expecting to benefit from increased government spending on...
[February 7, 2003, 9:42]
E-Commerce Minister Fleshes Out Rural Broadband Plans
News ZDNet UK reported yesterday that the e-Envoy's office was considering combining local government spending as a way of boosting broadband take-up across the country. Douglas Alexander, the e-Commerce minister, will say on Tuesday evening that the...
[November 6, 2001, 17:30]
Industry Body Demands Broader R&D Tax Credit
News Intellect, a trade group representing IT businesses such as Microsoft and Intel in the UK, has criticised the way the government is handling its tax credit for research and development. Intellect says that the government's current consultation on...
[July 14, 2003, 12:48]
UK Lagging On Innovation
News European Union, which accused government and businesses of not spending enough on research and development. This is entirely due to a low score for e-government. The UK is less innovative than Belgium, according to a report by the
[January 16, 2006, 15:10]
HP To Overtake BT As Top Government IT Supplier
News BT was once more the biggest supplier of UK government ICT in 2007, but HP's purchase of EDS may now have put the merged company into the lead. With government transformation at the heart of public-sector policy, technology is increasingly being...
[May 22, 2008, 8:26]
ID Cards Fuel Leap In Consultancy Costs
News Home Office minister Liam Byrne defended the spending spike, claiming the government was buying in specialist expertise and attributing much of it to major outsourcing contracts and IT projects. The government plans to start taking the first...
[April 14, 2008, 8:42]
Europe's IT Spending Growth Favours UK
News The billions of pounds being spent by the British government on e-government projects, such as broadband rollout to the public sector and the upgrade of the National Health Service's IT systems, are also a contributing factor.
[February 25, 2004, 14:25]
Mixed Reception For New R&D Tax Credit
News The government's decision to redefine the rules governing research and development (R&D) tax credits has been welcomed by some in the high-tech sector, but others have claimed that the changes don't go far enough.
[April 10, 2003, 13:01]
Government Shared-services Spending To Rocket
News UK government spending on shared services is expected to rocket over the next five years as demand for centralised services increases. The Outsourcing and Shared Services in Government IT Management report predicts spending on shared services...
[September 6, 2007, 15:29]
Cash, Not Clichés, Will Grow UK Tech
Leader If the UK is to remain at the forefront of the world economy, the government needs to do substantially more for the technology industry. If the UK is to remain at the forefront of the world economy, the government needs to do more than provide...
[March 16, 2005, 12:55]
UK Government Trials Desktop Linux
News Public spending watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has signed a framework pricing agreement for Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS) and a series of trials will begin in the New Year.
[December 10, 2003, 13:05]
Government Consultancy Spend Criticised
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the UK government's approach to employing consultancies to assist with work such as IT projects. The NAO, which scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament, slammed the government in a report...
[December 18, 2006, 13:13]
Sharp Rise Predicted In Local Gov't Tech Spend
News Local government IT spending is predicted to hit £3bn during 2007/8 — a nine percent increase on the previous year. According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT will rise again as...
[January 4, 2008, 9:29]
Treasury Pledges IT Efficiency
News In the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, which aims to identify which investments and reforms the Government will make over the next three years, the Government will pledge a three percent efficiency saving in public spending.
[May 14, 2007, 16:50]
£300m Local Savings From E-government
News The UK's local e-government programme could lead to significant direct cost savings in addition to improved services for citizens, according to two separate studies out this week. Research by the local e-government National Projects has found that...
[December 9, 2004, 11:05]
IT Megadeals Mean SMEs Lose Out
News According to the analyst, the current very high level of IT investment will soon end, with government spending scaled down towards the end of the decade. The nature of UK government is in part to blame for the megadeals.
[October 6, 2006, 9:20]
Government Snooping Will Hurt E-commerce
News The meeting, attended by at least one UK member of parliament, echoed Davies' concerns, although the privacy community is divided about how to preserve privacy from commercial entities, and whether commercial prying is different from government...
[September 28, 2001, 9:27]
