Seven firms have been chosen to provide the Identity Assurance service required for benefit applicants to the new Universal Credit welfare scheme. The Post Office, Cassidian, Digidentity, Experian, Ingeus, Mydex, and Verizon will deliver ...
HMRC has admitted running over budget on its Real Time Information(RTI)development,the PAYE system crucial to the roll-out of Universal Credit next year. Some 124m euros had originally been earmarked for the project in 2010,said David ...
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The IT underpinning the government's flagship £2.2bn Universal Credit programme is again being called into question, with reports that the project is now a year behind schedule and £100m over budget due to software issues. The ...
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Malcolm Whitehouse, programme director for the government's £2.2bn Cinitiative, has stepped down from the role. Whitehouse is to be replaced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits director Hilary Reynolds and will ...
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A number of large public sector contracts buoyed IT services company Atos Origin in the third quarter, with the outsourcer reporting double-digit growth. Atos Origin grew its UK market 10% to €426m, compared with the same quarter the ...
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The government is expected to announce eight suppliers to provide identity assurance (IDA) to consumers of online public services. The move will enable consumers to choose from a range of providers to verify their identity in accessing ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is to announce the first suppliers in the government's identity assurance (IDA) scheme at the end of October. The IDA scheme is intended to provide UK citizens with a choice of providers to ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) claims the IT behind its flagship Universal Credit (UC) project is being developed using agile principles. But just how agile is the £2.2bn seven-year project? Universal Credit is a complex ...
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The government has spent 638m pounds on universal credit IT to date, with 441m pounds going on design and development, the minister for employment Mark Hoban revealed in answer to a Parliamentary question. A breakdown of the IT ...
Cyber security is the biggest challenge for the government's universal credit roll-out,welfare reform minister David Freud has told a select committee. Speaking to a select committee,pensions minister Ian Duncan Smith said government had ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hit back at calls to delay its flagship welfare reform following concerns that the IT underpinning the Universal Credit project is not ready. Labour is now calling on the government to ...
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The Cabinet Office has blacklisted Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for government IT contracts because they constitute too high a risk. According to FT.com, Fujitsu will not be considered by the Cabinet Office for new ...
Disability activists intend to protest against Olympic sponsor and IT supplier Atos Origin for the way it carries out work capability assessments. Activists say Atos mistreats disabled people when assessing them for disability employment ...
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Ex-government CIO Joe Harley has hit back at his former deputy CIO Bill McCluggage's claims that the government is unable to achieve its IT goals. Harley worked with McCluggage in his year in charge of government ICT before retiring from ...
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Earlier this week,former government CIO Joe Harley announced that he would be taking up the role of strategic adviser at managed services company Amor Group. Further reading At the helm of government ICT:interview with Andy Nelson ...
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