News

• Scottish agencies to share IT services

  Two public agencies in Scotland have joined forces in a £40m deal for shared IT services

• IPS tenders for ID card front office

  The Identity and Passport Service has launched the procurement for front office services for the issuing of cards and passports

• Bromley and Lewisham seek joint ICT deal

  Two south east London boroughs have published a shared tender for computing and telephony services worth up to £48m over nine years

• NI claims Microsoft deal will save £2m

  The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has said that an agreement with Microsoft will save it about £2m over the next three years

• More news

• Government offers young Londoners ID cards

• CLG to combine IT supply deals

• Councils triple CCTV use over decade

• ICO rebukes Northern Ireland DFP

• Police will retain data on 1m innocents

• Directgov launches travel iPhone app

• Comment

• England: big enough to fail

  Provincial England's health service suffers from its size when trying to develop informatics, says SA Mathieson

• A failure to learn

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the C-Nomis project suggests that parts of the public sector have been very slow to learn the lessons of earlier failures, writes Mark Say

• Living with risk

  Dominic Grieve has introduced a touch more honesty into the debate about privacy and personal information, argues Mark Say

• HMG isn't Tesco

  Damian Green believes that policing IT projects have made everyone a suspect. He has a point, argues SA Mathieson