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Whitehall warms to benefits of offshoring
News After years of resistance to offshoring, the need to cut billions of pounds from public spending could see Whitehall looking to send IT work abroad. Whitehall already offshores a limited amount of work, including some back-office operations under...
[August 4, 2009, 13:25]
Whitehall gives nod for increased IT offshoring
News With predictions that a £50bn cut in public services spending is needed by 2020, senior Whitehall figures have indicated that they are open to increased offshoring of government IT. Currently, Whitehall offshores a limited amount of work, including...
[June 25, 2009, 12:52]
Whitehall reports 30 data losses since November
News Since HM Revenue & Customs reported in November that it had lost the details of 25 million child-benefits claimants, Whitehall has suffered a further 30 security breaches, the Information Commissioner's Office revealed on Monday.
[June 24, 2008, 13:20]
Tories attack Whitehall IT
News The figures, issued on 7 June 2005, are said by the party to represent a "massive waste of public money involved in botched Whitehall IT programmes". The Conservative Party has issued figures claiming the government has overspent by £2bn on IT...
[June 8, 2005, 16:15]
Government high-tech plans to shake up Whitehall
News The system, dubbed the Knowledge Network Project has been criticised in the press as a means for keeping Whitehall in tune with the Labour Party message. The government is to launch an electronic information system aimed at streamlining the civil...
[January 11, 2000, 9:34]
BlackBerrys grounded by Whitehall data ban
News Government BlackBerry devices and PDAs have been grounded by the Whitehall-wide ban on the movement of unencrypted personal data. The Cabinet Office confirmed that any government electronic device, even down to a mobile phone, would have to have...
[February 5, 2008, 8:13]
Immediate ban stops laptops leaving Whitehall
News All Whitehall staff have been banned from removing laptops containing unencrypted personal data from offices in the wake of the Ministry of Defence data loss. Cabinet secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell sent an email to top civil servants on Monday night...
[January 23, 2008, 7:52]
Tories attack Whitehall IT
Talkback Oh Jesus 'H' Christ, if this website starts getting articles from the Daily 'bloddy' Mail then I'm going to stop coming here!
[June 9, 2005, 12:09]
ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
News Whitehall has told ISPs they have until April next year to crack down on file-sharing of copyrighted material. The BERR spokesperson said that while Whitehall would "welcome discussion on legislative options", it had no preference as to what any...
[February 22, 2008, 12:57]
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 report comes against a backdrop of widespread cost-cutting at Whitehall, with...
[July 30, 2009, 9:53]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog Once more, the sky around Whitehall is thick with homecoming pigeons looking forward to a good roost. There is, as he points out, no expertise whatsoever within Whitehall for modern technology, let alone in the Home Office or the DTI.
[February 19, 2001, 8:25]
Parliament to get an 'electronic community'
News The UK government has set up a new system for transferring information between Parliament and Whitehall departments. In its first stage of development, the network will deliver parliamentary questions from the House of Commons to Whitehall and...
[November 25, 2004, 11:50]
Ten government IT projects in danger
News Whitehall has revealed some details of its 10 most at risk IT projects, following a Freedom of Information request. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has released details of IT projects found to be most at risk across Whitehall, but is...
[March 1, 2005, 15:25]
Government joins push for IT professionalism
News The British Computer Society (BCS) has launched a new scheme involving Whitehall and industry figures which aims to boost the status of the IT profession. Whitehall figures such as Bob Assirati, executive director of the Office of Government...
[May 11, 2005, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog More teeth-rattling frustration from the Whitehall Mandarinity. Whitehall cannot do IT, and the Government doesn't even know enough to spot this. Thursday 6/12/2001 A report from the Public Accounts Committee says that a huge project to replace...
[December 7, 2001, 16:37]
Government appoints digital engagement tsar
News Power of Information Agenda', which looks at how Whitehall can make better use of digital technologies to engage with citizens, promote policy debate and provide online access to information. Whitehall experience will be complemented by the new...
[May 14, 2009, 15:30]
Lords: Put a stop to 'pervasive' snooping
News At the same time, national databases designed to hold personal information on nearly every UK citizen are being set up across Whitehall, from the NHS Care Records Service to the ID cards National Identity Register, according to a report by the...
[February 6, 2009, 12:22]
2000 Roundup: Government tries (hard) to get online
News In February the e-envoy promised to drag Whitehall into the 21st century, saving the taxpayer millions and bringing hundreds of services online. Critics claimed the electronic information system was more about keeping Whitehall "on message" and...
[December 25, 2000, 6:12]
Privacy advocates confident about ID card defeat
News Similarly, if the government succeeds in its plans to centralise health care records, sensitive patient information could potentially be accessed many central government employees in Whitehall, said Ross Anderson, the professor of security...
[May 17, 2005, 17:55]
Friday: Police states
Blog It's nice to know that somewhere in a dusty Whitehall office, somebody is thinking the unthinkable. Friday 20/06/2003 Once, it was nuclear attack from the Soviets: in response, national and local government would retreat to a series of deep bunkers...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
