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    <title><![CDATA[Labour demands Service Birmingham review]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Birmingham City Council's new Labour administration orders independent assessment of a major outsourcing deal]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-05-10T12:02:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[SMEs still struggle to get public sector work, says FSB]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Circle's NHS 'surplus' deal is ''a disgrace'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The private firm keeping shares of the profits it makes at Hinchingbrooke hospital is slammed by unions]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-05-03T11:04:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA['£90bn of projects at risk, but assurance data not used']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Senior officials failing to engage with new government assurance efforts to stop major projects failing, says NAO ]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-05-02T10:59:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Conflict of interest feared in open standards consultation]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The government has been forced to re-run part of its consultation into open standards and discount earlier input]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-05-01T10:58:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Home Office IT chief to take on the G-Cloud]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Denise McDonagh will continue as IT director at the Home Office and take on the government wide G-Cloud programme]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-04-16T10:20:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Whitehall IT chief slams government progress]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Chris Chant says government hasn't come nearly far enough, and that change has been 'blocked']]></content>
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    <updated>2012-04-13T10:02:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maude defends against PASC attack on government ICT]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Government responds to claims that it has still failed to grasp what needs to be done to stop 'obscenely' wasteful IT projects]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-03-30T14:25:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Taxpayer to save £75m from revised Oracle IT deal]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Companies will no longer charge some public bodies more than others for their services, says Maude]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-03-28T11:55:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[SMEs rival major players in Public Services Network]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Smaller firms selected as suppliers on the PSN framework, expected to cut the cost of government IT and join up public services
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    <updated>2012-03-26T10:45:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[A4e ''knew of fraudulent claim risks in 2009'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[DWP says an A4e audit showing possible risk related to programmes contracted by the Labour government]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-03-23T13:53:00+00:00</updated>
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