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Under existing arrangements, non-domestic rates (or business rates) revenue collected by local authorities is pooled for redistribution to local authorities in England. So while local authorities have a vital role to play in supporting the local economy, there is limited direct fiscal incentive to do so. On 18 July 2011, the Local Government Resource Review [...]
East London NHS Foundation Trust has invested in a new state of the art fibre optic network to connect 50 of its sites. In doing so it has dramatically boosted reliability and increased speeds for its desktop users fivefold to an average of 10 Megabits-per-second (Mbps). The Trust provides mental health and community health care [...]
Just over £363 million in Government investment is set to take broadband to all homes and businesses in England and Scotland, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt announced today. Counties in England are set to get £294.8 million, and Scotland £68.8 million. This is part of £530 million of Government [...]
Google Inc. has taken reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today, following an audit at the company’s London office. The ICO’s audit – which took place in London in July – was agreed as part of the terms of an undertaking that Google signed in November 2010 after [...]
Huntingdonshire District Council has gone live with a new online mapping and information service. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ enables local residents to use their postcode or part address to find information about council services, and to locate facilities on maps. ‘myHuntingdonshire’ provides information about councillors, next bin collections, historic and new planning applications in the vicinity and much [...]
Local authorities and residents will be able to decide how funding for improving broadband connection speeds will be spent. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced: “We are not prepared to let some parts of our country get left behind in the digital age.” “Fast broadband is absolutely vital to our economic growth, to delivering public services [...]
Northern Ireland is set to receive £4.4 million to help take broadband to everyone in the country, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt announced today. Mr Hunt today revealed Northern Ireland’s share of the Government’s £530 million broadband investment fund. The Northern Ireland Executive has already run an extensive programme [...]
This week sees the successful completion of Project Pathway, heralding the introduction of the UK’s first compliant Public Services Network (PSN) under the auspices of the Government’s ICT Strategy launched earlier this year. Project Pathway involved Hampshire County Council, Kent County Council, Global Crossing, Virgin Media Business and the pan-Government PSN Team working in concert [...]
Hundreds of IT staff who work on contracts for five government departments and agencies are being balloted for a strike over pay. Industrial action could be held in September and October and would affect the public services supported by the contractor Fujitsu, particularly in HM Revenue and Customs and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, [...]
The NPIA’s new ‘Amazon-Style’ online procurement process which enables police forces to buy specified goods and services online, goes live for the first time. Lincolnshire Police will be the first force to use the new National Police Procurement Hub (NPPH). The Hub gives the police service the ability to select, purchase and pay for a [...]
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