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...s IT-based Single Payment Scheme without any sign off by Defra, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or its agency, the Rural Payments Agency. Defra and its Agency run the Single Payment Scheme. This breakdown... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/10/nao-reports-on-risky-it-projec.html
...Rural Payments Agency and its (supposedly) overseeing department, Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. These IT systems, which work out how much farmers should be paid, went live in 2005, disastrously. Since... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2009/10/the-naos-most-serious-criticis.html
...Agency's IT-based Single Payment Scheme without any sign off by Defra, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, or its agency, the Rural Payments Agency. Continue reading "Reports of the NAO on risky IT projects - has a... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins
...administers the single payment system of EU subsidy to English farmers, for the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), was heavily criticesed last week by the National Audit Office for its handling of the scheme. Now... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/29/238341/farmers-bank-account-details-lost-by-rural-payments.htm
...launching its Iron Mountain Connect customer storage portal in the UK, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the first to trial it. The portal is for organisations across all industry sectors facing the increasing... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/12/06/220395/defra-trials-data-storage-portal.htm
...of State, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA A minister who publicly disputed audited...is part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The rising costs of the Rural Payments... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/28/238326/minister-mistook-costs-of-defra-single-payment-scheme.htm
...websites have recently been defaced including those of departments such as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In other countries there have also been incidents – in Estonia in 2007 government ministries and banks were overwhelmed... http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/stuart_king/Coleman%20Report.pdf
...central government department has refused to sign off an NAO report. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has given no formal agreement to a report of the NAO on its value-for-money investigation of the Single... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/21/238257/nao-in-dispute-with-defra-over-it-based-single-payment.htm
... "The average farm receives a payment of £2,567 per annum from Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which includes the Rural Payments Agency]. We receive less than £1,000. How can Accenture feel they have done... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/22/238262/nao-struggles-for-truth-in-defra-it-inquiry.htm
...system to pay EU subsidies to farmers. Helen Ghosh, permanent secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), told MPs yesterday: "The people responsible for the fact that the IT system was not as good as it should... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/27/238311/defra-defends-accenture-over-flawed-350m-it-system.htm

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...information on farmers earlier this year but only informed its minister last week. Hilary Benn, the environment, food and rural affairs minister, told parliament on 29 October that the agency realised it could not account for 38 data backup tapes... http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39852049,00.htm?s_cid=259

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