The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been slammed by disabled charities for awarding more than £540m in contracts to Atos and Capita to test the eligibility of disabled people receiving benefits. The DWP has awarded three ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
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Several hundred former Sparrows Point workers gathering late Monday afternoon for details of their steel mill's demise heard from union leaders that at least two groups had wanted to restart the plant but weren't given the chance. Mr Joe ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) CIO Philip Langsdale is overseeing a major overhaul of the department's flagship Universal Credit programme, according to senior Whitehall sources. The Universal Credit programme, which aims to ...
Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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The government has named the first public services to go digital, following the publication of 18 individual departmental digital strategies outlining moves to digital by default public services. The strategies detail how departments will ...
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Out with the old Delivering the “near-impossible” The agenda for 2013 Focus on Apple The next funding period Susan Cooklin has had an eventful 2012. The CIO at Network Rail delivered major technology upgrades, while driving ...
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Several hundred former Sparrows Point workers gathering late Monday afternoon for details of their steel mill's demise heard from union leaders that at least two groups had wanted to restart the plant but weren't given the chance. Mr Joe ...
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Phil Pavitt has stepped down as HMRC’s CIO to join insurance giant Aviva as global director of IT transformation. Mark Hall has taken over as CIO of HMRC, having worked as deputy CIO at the department for two years and director of ...
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The Central Bank of Ireland has imposed a monetary penalty of€2.45m against Aviva's two subsidiaries Aviva Insurance Europe and Aviva Life&Pensions Ireland,for violating rules pertaining to stock lending. As per the settlement ...
The European Commission (EC) wants to impose pension changes that would cost UK businesses £350bn (eURO440bn) and 180,000 jobs, according to research commissioned by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Describing the ...
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The government must integrate the various strands of its IT strategy to realise cost savings, Amyas Morse, comptroller and auditor general at the National Audit Office (NAO), has warned. Speaking at Intellect’s World-Class Public ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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CSC customers are being urged to boycott the supplier over allegations that it took part in illegal CIA rendition flights in the US "war on terror". CSC has been linked in court documents to the rendition of German citizen Khaled ...
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