Tash Shifrin

As the result of new data sharing proposals by ministers, Liberal Democrats are seeking a debate on government use of its databases. Nick Clegg ,U.K. Member of Parliament, made the call after uncovering details of disagreements within the government about moves to pass automated number plate recognition (ANPR) data from congestion charging and future road pricing cameras to police.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pushing for increased data sharing powers in three of the bills announced in his draft legislative program - with one measure that would hand HM Revenue and Customs data to private firms.

Up to five million people may be paying the wrong income tax because HM Revenue and Customs' computer systems are "no longer well suited" to handling the tax, the U.K. National Audit Office has warned.

The House of Lords will hear calls on Thursday to develop stronger commissioning capacity in the civil service to avoid problems in major government IT projects.

MPs have warned the U.K. government's CIO Council to clearly define their role and step up their game. The powerful Commons public accounts committee urged that the CIO Council should "become a key influence in government IT" by acting more like the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which issues quarterly public reports on the status of all major projects.

MPs are set to grill executives from supermarket giant Tesco and Nectar loyalty card firm LMG on how they use customer data -- and how privacy is protected.

Trading on the Euronext.Liffe futures and options exchange was halted for more than four hours on Monday after an outage hit part of its Connect trading platform.

The U.K. government has begun procurement for a police national database in a contract worth up to