Leo King

Britain will reduce the number of IT suppliers to its land registry to a handful from 12 over the next year in a bid to save money. Hopefully, it will also make it easier for the government to talk to fewer vendors

HMRC extended the January 31 deadline due to a hardware problem that affected nearly 15,000 people attempting to submit online tax returns.

Review of Criminality Information suggests UK government failed to meet police data sharing recommendations on time

IT system designed by Accenture, which cost hundreds of millions of pounds, is unsuited to agency's needs, says committee

Britain's Information Commissioner says the government is going too far in planning to create a database of all phone calls and e-mails made in the country.

Thousands of bags are being delayed daily at London's new terminal, but British Airways says its IT system is not the reason. Instead, it points the finger elsewhere

The U.K. government's newly appointed IT troubleshooter will examine how it can best exit failing technology projects, Computerworld UK has learnt. Downing Street said lessons had been learnt from the private sector, where companies were able to abandon even the largest IT schemes if they considered them to be failing or having a negative impact on business.n

Unencrypted laptops containing 31,000 patient records have been lost by two NHS trusts. Both data breaches break Department of Health policy that states NHS mobile devices must be protected by encryption. Neither trust has offered an explanation as to why the data was unencrypted.