E-Government Strategy

HC Deb 13 July 2000 vol 353 c610W

Mr. Derek Twigg

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what progress has been made on the toolkit for assessing IT professional skills in departments, proposed in the e-Government strategy published in April. [130796]

Mr. Ian McCartney

The Central IT Unit in the Cabinet Office, with support from CCTA, has now developed the toolkit and I am today placing copies in the Libraries of the House, and on the Information Age Government website at www.iagchampions.gov.uk. The toolkit has been extended to cover both the IT professional and business system management skills needed to implement department's e-business strategies, as recommended in the report "Successful IT: Modernising Government in Action" that I published in May.