Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 24 February 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 41 members in total.

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GOVERNMENT COMPUTER CONTRACTS

That this House notes the recent report of the National Audit Office on the Criminal Records Bureau and numerous other reports of wasted public funds on public sector computer projects; further notes the evidence of Computer Weekly to the Work and Pensions sub committee on computer projects; supports the call for best practice to be enshrined in United Kingdom law; supports the call for gateway reviews by the Office of Government Commerce to be published; and notes that Government departments are sometimes misusing the defence of commercial confidentiality to keep information out of the public domain; and urges the Government to change this practice.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

658 

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Contracts Software Best value ICT Government departments Privacy National Audit Office Criminal Records Bureau

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk