The Inland Revenue is to postpone a series of IT projects after users said that systems were not up to the job, according to Computer Weekly magazine.
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The Inland Revenue is to postpone a series of IT projects after users said that systems were not up to the job, according to Computer Weekly magazine.
The government has launched three new guidance booklets in a bid to improve its construction purchasing. They cover whole-life costing, benchmarking and project evaluation and feedback and were launched last month. The booklets address some of the problem areas raised in the 1998 Egan report and a University of Bath study, Constructing the Government Client.
More than two-thirds of British companies have their computer systems broken into by hackers, but only 5 per cent will admit it, according to a security expert.
Peter Hines et al
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Nike is monitoring the working conditions and management actions of one of its Mexican suppliers after factory workers complained of mistreatment and unfair sackings.
Councils have been given new powers to assess the employment and training records of contractors before awarding them work, according to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Councils can now adopt similar procedures to those used by housing associations, which can demand that contractors use a proportion of local labour on construction projects.
Anthony Vlamis and Bob Smith
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