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Digital Government And Inclusion Will Be A £24bn Election Issue
The political parties have started their tech campaign for the General Election next year – while a think tank says more savings can be made
Maria Miller Replaces Jeremy Hunt As Culture Secretary
Relief for radio presenters as Hunt moves to Health and Miller To Media
Conservatives Fail To Control The Carbs
The failure to introduce carbon accounting is one more broken environmental promise by the Conservative government, says Peter Judge
Budget 2012: Goodbye To the CRC Green Tax?
George Osborne may be right to call the CRC cumbersome, but he needs to create something to take its place, says Peter Judge
Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Transparency Tsar
Wikipedia founder will advise the government on transparency and crowdsourcing
Government Appeals For Broadband Access Ideas
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will ask telecom firms how to tackle the broadband divide in the United Kingdom
Budget Puts UK Government IT Into Austerity Mode
George Osborne’s coalition budget has raised VAT and confirmed public sector cuts that will hit public sector IT
Martha Lane Fox Keeps ‘Digital Champion’ Role
The coalition government is keeping Martha Lane Fox as the UK’s ‘digital champion’ with a brief to cut government costs with online services
Burglars Take Tory Liam Fox’s Laptop
‘Crime is down’ says Labour. ‘No it isn’t,’ says Liam Fox, who lost his laptop and car in a break-in on Wednesday
With No Broadband Tax, How Will We Wire Up Britain?
Blocking the broadband tax might give the Conservatives a late political goal, but now there is no mechanism to pay for rural coverage, says Peter Judge
Labour Drops 50p Broadband Tax
Conservatives have struck the Broadband Tax out of the Labour budget, in a move which could cost them rural votes
Digital Britain Minister Tweets Against Tory Tech Manifesto
Stephen Timms has attacked the Conservative Party’s new proposal for the rollout of super-fast broadband via Twitter