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Mark Pack

Government goes over-the-top in boasting about how it is centralising decisions

By Mark Pack | Thu 3rd March 2011 - 10:54 am

Philip Green’s report into how the government could save money was initially rather dominated by the way he has arranged his own personal tax affairs. Some of his ideas were also far from good – such as the idea that the government should become a slow payer of bills to small businesses – but there were also good ideas in the Philip Green report.

The government has now come up with its response to the report and its plans for implementing many of the recommendations. What particularly caught my eye was …

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The Cabinet Office’s IT plans

By Mark Pack | Thu 7th October 2010 - 9:26 am

The possibilities of better use of technology to improve government have often come up on this site, so readers may find of interest what the Cabinet Office’s Draft Structural Reform Plan (a set of priorities for each department) says on the matter:

Cabinet Office logo3.1 Increase powers of CIO to drive the integration and improve value for money of ICT infrastructure
i. Set up infrastructure for new CIO office and increase central CIO powers
ii. Start the roll out cross-departmental asset register on a common ICT infrastructure
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Met Police and Home Office put on special measures for breaking rules

By Mark Pack | Mon 4th October 2010 - 1:53 pm

One for the bureaucratic irony files this. The Information Commissioner has announced that 33 public sector bodies have so regularly broken the rules on responding to Freedom of Information requests that they have been put in special measures.

The 33 bodies are all being required to fully document how they handle future requests and report monthly to the Information Commissioner on how they are doing are complying with the rules. Their record will be reviewed in three months time.

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Cabinet Office breaks the law, again

By Mark Pack | Tue 16th March 2010 - 9:20 am

Regular readers of The Voice may be familiar with my correspondence with the Cabinet Office and the tales of how the Cabinet Office has lost correspondence, failed to comply with data protection access requests and ignored requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. In short, the Cabinet Office’s administration is frequently chaotic and on several occasions the Cabinet Office has broken the law.

A sample of this was contained in my previous post:

I’ve also put in two Freedom of Information requests about the Cabinet Office’s records of complaints about emails sent via their website going astray. The first produced

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Cabinet Office: correspondence chaos update

By Mark Pack | Wed 21st October 2009 - 11:50 am

Back in September I blogged about how difficult it’s been to get a response from the Cabinet Office to a small complaint I had about possible misuse of letterheads by Gordon Brown:

Tally so far: two emails and one letter from me plus four letters from my MP spread out over nine months and what to show for it all? Just one

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Cabinet Office: correspondence chaos

By Mark Pack | Fri 18th September 2009 - 11:20 am

It’s all a bit rum. Back in December I put in a complaint via the Cabinet Office website about Gordon Brown. It was a pretty minor issue – using government letterhead for partisan purposes – but given how stringent the rules imposed on other bodies around the country, it seemed to me worth all of oooh 30 seconds to make the point of principle.

But I got no reply. And I don’t like that sort of thing…

So I sent another message via their website. And got no reply.

So I wrote a letter. And got no reply.

So I wrote to my MP, who then wrote to the …

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