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| Started by | Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> |
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| First post | 2014-06-26 16:09 +0100 |
| Last post | 2014-06-27 18:18 +0000 |
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A special IT relationship Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-06-26 16:09 +0100
Re: A special IT relationship Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-26 13:54 -0700
Re: A special IT relationship Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-06-27 18:18 +0000
| From | Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> |
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| Date | 2014-06-26 16:09 +0100 |
| Subject | A special IT relationship |
| Message-ID | <lohd2v$jm2$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
"Private IT companies are being paid almost £5bn a year by the [UK] taxpayer to run Government computer networks, startling new figures reveal today. An analysis of contracts across Whitehall shows that the American computer giant Hewlett-Packard alone was paid £140m a month last year by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Ministry of Justice for computer services. [...]" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-computer-giant-hewlettpackard-rakes-in-140m-a-month-from-whitehall-9563397.html
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| From | Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2014-06-26 13:54 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <loi1ao$3o7$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #3882 |
On 2014-06-26 15:09:22 +0000, Hils said: > "Private IT companies are being paid almost £5bn a year by the [UK] > taxpayer to run Government computer networks, startling new figures > reveal today. > > An analysis of contracts across Whitehall shows that the American > computer giant Hewlett-Packard alone was paid £140m a month last year by > the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Ministry of Justice > for computer services. [...]" > > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-computer-giant-hewlettpackard-rakes-in-140m-a-month-from-whitehall-9563397.html > This is the essence of the private / public partnership aka privatization.
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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
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| Date | 2014-06-27 18:18 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <c15qr0Fug88U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #3882 |
On 2014-06-26, Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote: > "Private IT companies are being paid almost £5bn a year by the [UK] > taxpayer to run Government computer networks, startling new figures > reveal today. > > An analysis of contracts across Whitehall shows that the American > computer giant Hewlett-Packard alone was paid £140m a month last year by > the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) ... And having worked with the DWP intermittently over the last couple of years, I would say that £139,999,980.00 of it is wasted. -- Today is Pungenday, the 32nd day of Confusion in the YOLD 3180 "I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another." Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811
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