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Cabinet Office

Answer

Dr. George Turner: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what assessment she makes of progress towards Government targets for the use of information and communications technology in transactions with the public. [144222] Mr. Ian McCartney: The Government continue to make strong progress towards the Prime Minister's target that by 2005 all Government services should be available online. We have a good story to tell: for central Government we have identified 451 services to the citizen and to business and already one third of them are available online Things you can do online now include: ordering and payment for a company's financial returns, checking to see if you need hospital treatment, find out if it is safe to visit foreign countries, fill out a tax form, the public can also keep up to date with what is happening in Parliament and contact the Ombudsman online, employees and employers can interactively calculate pay rates and entitlements under the national minimum wage regulations with further interactive guides to employment law to follow, and get a local weather forecast to help plan your day using your mobile phone (SMS or WAP). Much more detail about Government service than I can give here may be found in the reports monitoring progress towards the targets for electronic service. These include details of the innovative approaches that Departments have planned for future services. The spring 2000 report has been placed in the Libraries of the House. My Department is preparing the autumn 2000 monitoring report which I will be placing the Libraries of the House.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

361 c288-9W; 144222

Session

2000-01

Question not reached

Yes

Subjects

Civil service ICT Government departments Monitoring Standards Electronic government

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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