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Which department serves the best fish ‘N chips? DWP
...nd a complimentary lemon for the more sophisticated lunchers.Pleasingly, it’s possible to pay in cash. Other places rely on irritating swipe cards, but not here: you could pay...
106 days ago
Maude defends GPC cards after Pickles attack
...blicly defended the civil service’s use of government procurement cards, following an attack on them...Conference by communities secretary Eric Pickles.Pickles lambasted the cards in his speech to the conferen...
120 days ago
.... Instead, he argues, the government could focus on collecting the billions of pounds of uncollected and avoided taxes, cancel Trident or identity cards.Labour are not completely imm...
856 days ago
Brown is covering all the bases - but is anybody ready to listen?
...ouncement. “In the next Parliament there will be no compulsory ID cards for British citizens,”...dquo;; maximum time limits on police response times; no compulsory ID cards in the next Parliament; biom...
856 days ago
MoJ most efficient department, according to government data
...ch to September 2011, and details of spending on government procurement cards from April to August 2011.Cab...Office minister Francis Maude said that spend on government procurement cards has been cut by around 10 per...
88 days ago
Maude defends GPC cards after Pickles attack
...’s use of government procurement cards, following an attack on them...Eric Pickles.Pickles lambasted the cards in his speech to the conferen...on the abuse of government credit cards and opening their spending up...s to have.”He also said that the cards are not frequently abused acr...
119 days ago
...ggest officials have used the cards to pay for at least £25m-wor...uses of resources. But these cards are not expense accounts for...s to use as they please. Most cards are tailored to individual us...quests about their use of GPC cards. “What the government shoul...
176 days ago
...ause it carries the same status as paper notes and is accepted to pay tax. Deregulation and advances in technology, in particular debit and credit cards, mean that 97 per cent of the...
176 days ago
...the campaign.” But isn’t her stance against party politics weakened by the fact that both Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone are notorious wild cards, famous for embarrassing and...
8 days ago
...ogramme has been successful in distancing itself from the spectre of ID cards. As well as doing “great wo...artners, particularly the privacy lobby, from a tough position after ID cards [when] they were quite a long...
73 days ago
All aboard for a new way of training
...and for officials’ trainingFor many months, civil servants involved in learning and development (L&D) have known that major change is on the cards: long before the change of go...
176 days ago
...environment for the UK’s digital economy and internet entrepreneurs: 95 per cent of high street transactions now take place on credit and debit cards which rely on a functioning c...
176 days ago
...giant had worked with outsourcing specialists Capita to provide payment cards for the ‘Home Access’ sch...packages of laptop computers and internet access. Recipients were given cards with which to buy their hardw...
176 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...data over the last six months; their spending on government procurement cards; and the second of their Quar...derstandably, since performance-related pay and spending on procurement cards have attracted great interest...
85 days ago
ID card contracts 'to be delayed'
ID card contracts were due to have been awarded this yearFurther doubt has been cast on the ID card scheme, with reports of delays in the award of contractsFurther doubt has been cast on the ID card scheme, with reports that the awarding of a major contract has been delayed by the Home Office. Th...
Tags: home affairs, Procurement, ID cards, conservative party, Science and Technology
749 days ago
ID card contracts 'to be delayed'
ID card contracts were due to have been awarded this yearFurther doubt has been cast on the ID card scheme, with reports of delays in the award of contractsFurther doubt has been cast on the ID card scheme, with reports that the awarding of a major contract has been delayed by the Home Office. Th...
Tags: home affairs, Procurement, ID cards, conservative party, Science and Technology
749 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...kle down into the structures and into the minds of ordinary people in our affluent society the cry may at last go up: You're nothing but a pack of cards!” We have to keep on b...853 days ago
