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    <title><![CDATA['Government fails to grasp scale of digital challenge']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Government actions to reform 'obscenely' wasteful ICT procurement are not sufficient, a committee of MPs has warned]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-01-26T12:20:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[London councils could outsource services worth £1bn]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Services worth more than £1bn could be outsourced to the private sector under a framework from Westminster City Council]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-01-20T16:34:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Over £31bn ''is wasted by civil servants'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The problem is that civil servants have poor negotiating skills with suppliers in the private sector, says NAO]]></content>
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    <updated>2012-01-09T11:28:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[New improvement and efficiency social enterprise]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[''Only by exploring new avenues like this will councils achieve the scale of savings required'']]></content>
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    <updated>2011-12-12T13:12:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[NHS NPfIT could cost taxpayer another £2bn]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[NHS IT system that failed deliver on its original purpose could now cost the taxpayer another £2bn]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-12-08T11:36:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Councils ''to borrow for major projects'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[City councils should be able to borrow against future business tax revenues through Tax Increment Financing (TIF), Clegg says]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-12-08T09:26:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA['Public procurement savings not captured']]></title>
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    <updated>2011-12-06T12:55:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[''Public sector doesn't understand costs'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Financial management not yet where it needs to be in the public sector, warns Amyas Morse]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-11-29T13:14:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Government still spends millions on newspapers and trade mags]]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Departments including MoD and Foreign Office spend significant sums even after cutbacks of hundreds of thousands]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-11-28T09:18:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[Procurement ''needs major shake-up'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Francis Maude is to announce plans to put over £50bn worth of public works and services tenders online]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-11-21T11:21:00+00:00</updated>
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    <title><![CDATA[The MoD has ''a culture of sloppiness'']]></title>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Ministry of Defence spent £564m on technical support and consultancy in the last two years]]></content>
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    <updated>2011-11-18T11:37:00+00:00</updated>
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