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Dear Reader, We are officially out of the longest recession this country has ever experienced since records began. Does this mean we should bring out the champagne and drink to the health of our fearless leaders, or could this result be temporary and next quarter will again see GDP fall? As the economy only grew by a weaker-than-expected 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2009, I wouldn’t bank on us being out of the woods just yet.
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The Cabinet Office recently announced savings to the public purse of £3.2 billion annually from 2013/14 through transformations in public sector technology. The government’s ICT Strategy outlines a smarter, cheaper and greener public sector ICT infrastructure. It will bring together government departments, local government and other public sector organisations to remove unnecessary overlaps between departments and avoid duplication of technology, delivering faster and better services for the public. Sounds like a good plan – now we just have to implement it!
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