Tech Policy Scorecard

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Here are the eGovernment, eDemocracy, public sector reform and parliamentary reform policies from the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats which have some relevance to the subject of this blog. I'll be updating this whenever I see any policy developments – if I have missed something or if you have any thoughts on it, please let me know in the comments below. Some of the column headings are clickable if you want to sort the table by different criteria. You might also be interested in the transparency.number10.gov.uk website, from which much of this information is taken. The main difference is that this scorecard tracks promises from 2010 election manifestos and commitments, not all of which have become coalition policy. And information here can also be sorted by theme, rather than just displayed by department. For an explanation of why I created this page, the guest post I wrote for FutureGov has more details.

Source	Policy Detail	Area	In coalition Programme for Government?	Structural reform plan/ Business plan	Proposals due	Implemented/ Comments	Status
Conservative manifesto	Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	January 2011	Being done at the Businesslink website although the full scheme is live from April 2011 More info from Cabinet Office	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Create a level playing field for open source ICT in govt procurement	ICT	Yes	Cabinet Office	December 2010	Significantly watered down in the Cabinet Office business plan (1.12.ii) to read: "Evaluate existing procurement rules designed to ensure a level playing field for open source software and explore options for strengthening current practice"	Delivered (but watered down)
Conservative manifesto	Open up contracts to SMEs by breaking up large ICT projects into smaller components	ICT	Yes	Cabinet Office	March 2011	See notes below on 'Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m' IT strategy says government "will move away from large and expensive ICT projects" but doesn't describe how projects will be broken up	Ditched
Conservative manifesto	Scrap Labour's phone tax and instead require BT and other infrastructure providers to allow the use of their assets to deliver superfast broadband across the country	Media	Yes Labour 'phone tax' was never implemented	Department for Culture, Media and Sport + Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	November 2011		In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Publish all items of spending over £25,000 online	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office + HM Treasury	November 2010	Data here	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Salaries of senior civil servants in central govt to be published	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	July 2010	July 2010	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Ban companies from using new peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children	Media	Watered down "We will crack down on irresponsible advertising and marketing, especially to children"	Not mentioned	May 2011	DCMS business plan confirms a review will report on options in May 2011	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Tackle marketing on corporate websites targeted at children	Media	Watered down "We will crack down on irresponsible advertising and marketing, especially to children"	Not mentioned	May 2011	DCMS business plan confirms a review will report on options in May 2011	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Establish a new online system that gives parents greater powers to take action against irresponsible commercial activities targeted at children	Media	Watered down "We will crack down on irresponsible advertising and marketing, especially to children. We will also take steps to tackle the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood."	Not mentioned	May 2011	DCMS business plan confirms a review will report on options in May 2011	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Publish detailed data about the performance of healthcare providers online	Open data	Yes	Department of Health	Autumn 2010 (see p.13 of white paper)	Described as delivered by DoH; yet to find the actual data	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Patients will be able to rate hospitals and doctors according to the quality of care they received	Transparency	Yes	Department of Health	Autumn 2010 (see p.13 of white paper)		No timescale
Conservative manifesto	Police to publish detailed local crime data statistics every month, in an open and standard format	Open data	Yes	Home Office	December 2010 Date delayed to January 2011 in Home Office business plan	Published on police.uk	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Introduce a new Public Reading Stage for Bills	Parliament	Yes	Political Reform	Proposals due December 2010, with implementation by November 2011	Proposals published in February 2011	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Any petition that secures 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in Parliament	Parliament	Yes	Political Reform	Proposals due December 2010, with implementation by November 2011	Details not yet made public	In progress: Overdue
Conservative manifesto	The petition with the most signatures will enable members of the public to table a Bill eligible to be voted on in Parliament	Parliament	Yes	Political Reform	Proposals due December 2010, with implementation by November 2011	Details not yet made public	In progress: Overdue
Conservative manifesto	Create a new right to govt data	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	By 2013	Central government departments and arm's length bodies to implement a 'right to data' in their information strategies by March 2011 Amend Freedom of Information guidance to extend 'right to data' to public services by March 2011 Introduce legislative amendments to Freedom of Information Act to strengthen 'right to data' by December 2011	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Publish online the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials paid more than the lowest salary permissible in Pay Band 1 of the Senior Civil Service pay scale	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	September 2010	Release delayed until mid-October Listed as complete in October SRP update	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Publish organograms that include all positions in public bodies	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	September 2010	Published October 2010	Partially delivered
Conservative manifesto	Publish online details of meetings with lobbyists	Transparency	Partial "Ensure greater transparency"	Cabinet Office	None given	Details published on Number 10 website Notes: Information is sometimes too vague to be much help and timing of release has been used to reduce transparency (see note below)	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Local govt spending items and contracts over £500 to be published	Open data	Yes	Department for Communities and Local Government	January 2011	Data available here and here By end of Jan 2011 around 80% of councils were publishing their data	Partially delivered
Conservative manifesto	Details of local govt salaries to be published the same as at national level	Open data	Yes Commitment covers all "public bodies"	Department for Communities and Local Government	January 2011	January update: DCLG says this is complete	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Strengthen role of the Chief Information Officer	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	August 2010	August update: Deadline missed, talks continue with Treasury over powers September update: Deadline missed again, talks continue October update: Now complete	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Change ICT procurement to deliver better value for money	ICT	Yes "We will enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller components"	Cabinet Office	March 2011	Covered in government IT strategy	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Publishing in full govt contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000	Transparency	Yes	Cabinet Office	January 2011	Cabinet Office business plan reduces the threshold to £10,000 (with security exemptions) Being done at the Businesslink website although the full scheme is live from April 2011 More info from Cabinet Office	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Publish details of every UK project that receives over £25,000 of EU funds	Open data	Yes	Not mentioned			No timescale
Conservative manifesto	Scrap ID cards and the National Identity Register	Privacy	Yes	Home Office	December 2010	Original deadline was August 2010	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Scrap the ContactPoint database	Privacy	Yes	Cabinet Office + Department for Education	December 2010	Announced as completed in August 2010 But the database may be re-established in a more limited form - October Cabinet Office SRP changes language to "reshape" ContactPoint may be cannibalised for parts - The Register	Partially delivered
Conservative manifesto	Strengthen powers of the Information Commissioner to penalise any public body guilty of mismanaging data	Privacy	No	Not mentioned			No timescale
Conservative manifesto	Legislate to make sure that DNA database is used primarily to store info about those who are guilty of committing crimes rather than those who are innocent	Privacy	Yes	Home Office	November 2011 Freedom Bill to be introduced February 2011 according to Home Office business plan	Legislative proposals published	In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Require Privacy Impact Assessments of any proposal that involves data collection or sharing	Privacy	No	Not mentioned			No timescale
Conservative manifesto	Publish full details of British aid on DfID.gov.uk	Open data	Yes	Department for International Development	January 2011	January update:DfID says this is complete – data here	Delivered
Conservative manifesto	Create new mechanism to give British people a direct say in how an element of the aid budget is spent	Engagement	Yes	Department for International Development	June 2011		In progress: On time
Conservative manifesto	Develop plans to align Company House and HMRC systems to create a 'one-click' registration process for new companies	ICT	Yes	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills	Plan due by December 2010 Implementation due by November 2011		In progress: On time
Conservative technology manifesto	Be the first country in Europe to extend superfast 100 mbps broadband across most of the population	Media	Yes No commitment to a particular speed	Department for Culture, Media and Sport + Department for Business, Innovation and Skills	May 2015	Delivery by 2015 is doubtful and one promise has been broken The DCMS business plan makes no reference to this promise Explanation here about how the government is carefully defining the term 'best' Article here about the problems delivering the policy	Unachievable
Conservative technology manifesto	We will create a 'govt skunkworks' that can develop low-cost IT applications in-house	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	November 2010	Cabinet Office November SRP update says "good progress" has been made March update says skunkworks has been formed	Delivered
Conservative technology manifesto	Require all credit card providers to send their customers a data file containing information on pricing and usage. This data file can be uploaded onto third party price comparison websites	Financial regulation	Yes	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills	December 2011	Initial proposals were due in November 2010 but have been delayed until January 2011 (Cabinet Office November SRP update) January update: The form and content of customers’ annual credit card statements have been agreed with UK Cards February update: "The delay in agreeing the content of electronic statements has had a knock-on effect on this action. The UK Cards Association is currently working with credit card providers on technical issues and will confirm the implementation timetable in March prior to announcement in April 2011"	In progress: Overdue
Conservative technology manifesto	Monthly online publication of education performance data	Open data	Watered down "We will publish performance data on educational providers, as well as past exam papers"	Cabinet Office	"On-going"		No timescale
Conservative technology manifesto	Publish online the energy consumption of all buildings in Whitehall	Open data	No	Department for Energy and Climate Change + Cabinet Office	September 2010	August 2010 (data here)	Delivered
Conservative technology manifesto	Require councils to publish procurement contracts and tender documents in full	Transparency	Yes	Department for Communities and Local Government	DCLG SRP: December 2010 DCLG business plan: January 2011		In progress: On time
Conservative technology manifesto	Require councils to publish data on individual councillor expenses	Transparency	No	Not mentioned			No timescale
Conservative technology manifesto	Require all MPs to publish regularly online details of their expenses claims	Transparency	No	Cabinet Office		Updates are now regularly published on the IPSA website but this is done two months in arrears, not in real time as promised. It also excludes the publication of receipts. The actions of IPSA are also nothing to do with the government	No timescale
Conservative technology manifesto	Appoint senior private sector non-executives to departmental boards	Civil service	Partial "We will make the running of government more efficient by introducing enhanced Departmental Boards which will form collective operational leadership of government departments"	Cabinet Office	October 2010	Now due by end of year (September SRP update) Lead non-execs now due by January 2011 (October SRP update) Other non-execs not due until July 2011, nine months late December 2010: First tranche of non-execs announced	In progress: Overdue
Conservative technology manifesto	Reform the design and procurement process for govt IT	ICT	Partial "We will take steps to open up government procurement and reduce costs"	Cabinet Office	January 2011	Cabinet Office business plan: "Announce new open standards and procurement rules for ICT, including right for skunk works to be involved prior to launch of procurement" January update: Strong progress has been made... However, we still need to confirm the new open standards for IT February update: "Feedback is being gathered on the draft open standards; upon completion these will be announced March update: task is complete on the basis of a procurement policy note	Delivered
Conservative technology manifesto	Implement open standards across govt IT systems	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	January 2011	Cabinet Office plans to crowd-source draft government open standards in February March SRP update says task is complete on the basis of a procurement policy note	Delivered
Conservative technology manifesto	Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	August 2010	August update: Deadline missed, draft policy being discussed internally September update: Deadline missed, draft policy still being discussed internally October update: Now due in November November update: Policy ditched and replaced with a new commitment to a new "Major Projects Authority, which will come into being in April 2011" (this becomes a separate entry in the Scorecard) See this report from Computer Weekly IT strategy commits the government to a presumption only "where possible"	Ditched
Conservative technology manifesto	Immediate moratorium on planned IT procurement projects	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	June 2010	May 2010 Cabinet Office memo (via intellectuk.org)	Delivered
Conservative website	Develop and issue formal guidance to all DFID country offices on scaling up participatory budgeting, cash transfers, and other measures which expand choice and empowerment to citizens in developing countries	Engagement	No	Department for International Development	December 2010 Pushed back to April 2011 in DfID business plan		In progress: Overdue
Conservative makeITbetter website	We will publish centrally online the Gateway Reviews when they are produced	ICT	No	Cabinet Office	December 2010	Not mentioned in the Cabinet Office business plan and may have been replaced by 'Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m', which is a separate Scorecard item See Tony Collins on ComputerWorldUK for more information about how these reviews are not being released Tony Collins now reports this as delayed by a year	In progress: Overdue
Conservative election statement	We will pilot a new 'crowd-sourcing' approach to drafting legislation, enabling expert members of the public to play a role	Parliament	No	Not mentioned			No timescale
Conservative election statement	Shortly after the Public Reading Stage, there will be a formal Public Reading Day as part of the Committee process, so that MPs and Lords can formally consider and discuss points raised by the public	Parliament	No	Not mentioned		Pilot scheme anounced in February 2011	In progress: On time
Lib Dem manifesto	Scrap ID cards and plans for new passports with biometric data	Privacy	Yes	Home Office	December 2010	Original deadline was August 2010	Delivered
Lib Dem manifesto	End plans to store email and internet records without good cause	Privacy	Yes	Home Office + Ministry of Justice	November 2010	Awaiting clarification of "good cause" Home Office action plan has an aim of "End the storage of internet and email records without good reason" but an action point of "Develop and publish proposals for the storage and acquisition of internet and e-mail records". This appears contradictory	Ditched
Lib Dem manifesto	Scrap the ContactPoint database	Privacy	Yes	Cabinet Office + Department for Education	December 2010	Announced as completed in August 2010 But the database may be re-established in a more limited form - October Cabinet Office SRP changes language to "reshape" ContactPoint may be cannibalised for parts - The Register	Partially delivered
Lib Dem manifesto	Better govt IT procurement, investigating the potential of different approaches such as cloud computing and open-source software	ICT	Partial "We will take steps to open up government procurement and reduce costs"	Cabinet Office	"On-going"	G-Cloud Phase II details published here	In progress: On time
Lib Dem manifesto	Introduce a statutory register of lobbyists	Transparency	Yes	Political reform	Starts November 2011	May 2012	In progress: On time
Lib Dem manifesto	Change the Ministerial Code so that ministers and officials are forbidden from meeting MPs on issues where the MP is paid to lobby	Transparency	No May be covered by "ensuring greater transparency" in lobbying	Not mentioned			No timescale
Lib Dem manifesto	Require companies to declare how much they spend on lobbying in their annual reports	Transparency	No May be covered by "ensuring greater transparency" in lobbying	Not mentioned			No timescale
Lib Dem manifesto	Introduce a statutory register of interests for parliamentary candidates based on the current Register of Members' Interests.	Transparency	No	Not mentioned		Unlikely to be seen as proportionate regulation	Ditched
Lib Dem manifesto	Amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to cover more organisations and support cross-government measures to provide greater transparency	Transparency	No	Ministry of Justice	November 2011 Ministry of Justice business plan proposes legislation in April 2011		In progress: On time
Lib Dem manifesto	Implement Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Bill which gives local communities the right to propose action in their area to improve sustainability	Engagement	No	Not mentioned		But will "implement the Sustainable Communities Act so that citizens know how taxpayers’ money is spent in their area and have a greater say over how it is spent"	Ditched
Conservative press release	£1m prize for the best platform which harnesses the wisdom of crowds	Engagement	No	Not mentioned		Unlikely to be seen as a justifiable expense in current climate	Ditched
Nick Clegg statement	Repeal and revisit the Digital Economy Act	Media	No	Not mentioned		Act will not be repealed, but will be reviewed later Lib Dems are now reviewing their policy on these issues DCMS has announced a review of part of the DEA after discussions with Nick Clegg	Ditched
Coalition Programme for Government	Require all councils to publish meeting minutes and local service and performance data	Transparency	Yes	Department for Communities and Local Government + Cabinet Office			No timescale
Coalition Programme for Government	Ensure all data published by public bodies is published in an open and standardised format	Open data	Yes	Cabinet Office	"On-going" Transparency board is over-seeing		No timescale
Coalition Programme for Government	Open up Whitehall recruitment by publishing central govt job vacancies online	Civil service	Yes	Cabinet Office business plan	October 2011		In progress: On time
Coalition Programme for Government	Speed up the implementation of individual voter registration	Electoral modernisation	Yes	Political Reform	November 2011	A faster timetable has been announced	In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m	Transparency	No	Cabinet Office	September 2010	Due November Cabinet Office November SRP: Policy ditched and merged into the creation of a Major Projects Authority in April 2011 (which becomes a separate item in this Scorecard) December 2010: Policy unditched and initial information published IT strategy commits governmetn to "greater transparency through regular and open reporting"	Partially delivered
Not mentioned	Devise a government-wide strategy on digital engagement and enablement	Engagement	No	Cabinet Office	November 2010		Delivered
Not mentioned	Publish sentencing data for different types of offence for every court in an open and standardised format	Open data	No	Ministry of Justice	June 2011		In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Develop options to publish detailed court data in an open and standardised format	Open data	No	Ministry of Justice	January 2011	January update: Seems to have been ditched as an interim step to publishing the actual data	Ditched
Not mentioned	Develop IT solutions for automating and administering the benefit system	ICT	No	Department for Work and Pensions	March 2013 DWP business plan brings this forward to October 2012		In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Publish NHS information strategy	Open data	No	Department of Health	September 2010	Consultation running until January 14, 2011	In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Publish publicly-held non-personal datasets on a regular basis, including Parliamentary Bills	Open data	No	Cabinet Office	"On-going"		No timescale
Not mentioned	Start the roll out cross-departmental asset register on a common ICT infrastructure	Open data	No	Cabinet Office October SRP update	April 2011 according to SRP update, May 2011 according to business plan		In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Publish first annual report on government funded major projects	Transparency	No	Cabinet Office October	December 2011	A system for the reports was due to be established by December 2010 according to the Cabinet Office SRP. As of November, work was not started.	In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Agree which of first tranche of ICT projects and programmes should be terminated or rescoped and begin decommissioning	ICT	No	Cabinet Office business plan	January 2011	January update: This action is in progress and the Cabinet Office is currently verifying decommissioning February update: Now listed as completed. "The review identified 419 projects for review by departments or the Office of the Chief Information Officer; 226 were identified for close by departments and of the remaining 193 ICT projects reviewed by the OGCIO, recommendations were made to close 32 projects and reshape 68 projects in total. All work on the first tranche of ICT project reviews, which includes 12 closures and 34 reshapes has been completed."	Delivered
Not mentioned	Develop process for ongoing review of future ICT projects	ICT	No	Cabinet Office business plan	February 2011	Listed as completed in February 2011 Cabinet Office update. No details of the process have been given.	Delivered
Not mentioned	Begin publication of regular status report on identified projects and programmes verifying decommissioning	ICT	No	Cabinet Office business plan	December 2011		In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Review websites for decommissioning, working with relevant departments	ICT	No	Cabinet Office business plan	June 2011	Complete review by May 2011, begin to implement in June 2011	In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Support departments in developing their draft information strategies, summarising their overall plan for the transparent publication of data, including the key datasets that will be made available and when	Open data	No	Cabinet Office business plan	March 2011	March update lists item as delivered	Delivered
Not mentioned	Work with BIS and HMT to create a Public Data Corporation	Open data	No	Cabinet Office business plan	April 2011 More information available here		In progress: On time
Not mentioned	Establish a new Major Projects Authority with central oversight of all major ICT spending, with the presumption that ICT projects should not exceed £100m and accompanied by the regular publication of the size and performance of ICT projects	ICT	No	Cabinet Office November SRP update	April 2011	MPA has been launched	Delivered

Updates

August 12, 2010: Updated "Local govt spending items and contracts over £500 to be published" to Partially Complete to reflect spending data now being published.

August 12, 2010: Updated "Publish all items of spending over £25,000 online" to Partially Complete to reflect DCLG spending data for 2009/10 (above £500).

August 18, 2010: Updated "Repeal and revisit the Digital Economy Act" to mention Lib Dem policy review.

August 18, 2010: Updated "Be the first country in Europe to extend superfast 100mbps broadband across most of the population" to mention a broken commitment on the taxation of fibre-optic networks.

August 20, 2010: Updated "Scrap ID cards and the National Identity Register" to show that the implementation timetable has slipped.

September 14, 2010: Updated "Strengthen role of the Chief Information Officer" to show a missed deadline.

September 14, 2010: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" to show a missed deadline.

September 15, 2010: Updated "Speed up the implementation of individual voter registration" to show a faster timetable.

October 1, 2010: Updated "Scrap the ContactPoint database" for report it may be re-created.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Publish online the job titles of every member of staff and the salaries and expenses of senior officials" to list it as delayed.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Appoint senior private sector non-executives to departmental boards" to list it as delayed.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Strengthen role of the Chief Information Officer" to show another missed deadline.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" to show another missed deadline.

October 3, 2010: Added the commitment to publish Gateway Reviews as an overdue task because it has been added to the Cabinet Office structural reform plan for September.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Publish NHS information strategy" to show a delay.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website" to indicate possible missed deadline.

October 3, 2010: Updated "Publish organograms that include all positions in public bodies" to indicate possible missed deadline.

October 9, 2010: Updated "Publish all items of spending over £25,000 online" to add data from DCMS which published information on spending over L500.

October 16, 2010: Updated "Publish organograms that include all positions in public bodies" to link to incomplete first set of organograms (published two weeks late).

October 18, 2010: Updated "Publish NHS information strategy" to link to consultation, which runs until January 14, 2011.

October 31, 2010: "Publish organograms that include all positions in public bodies" listed as complete in October Cabinet Office update. It will be listed here as fully complete when all data is available in CSV as well as PDF formats.

October 31, 2010: Updated "Appoint senior private sector non-executives to departmental boards" to show new delay until January 2011 as per October SRP because "lead non–executive directors need to be appointed in order to be involved in the appointment of the remaining departmental non-executives directors".

October 31, 2010: Added "Start the roll out cross-departmental asset register on a common ICT infrastructure" because it has been added to the Cabinet Office structural reform plan for October.

October 31, 2010: Updated "We will publish centrally online the Gateway Reviews when they are produced" to show December 2010 deadline now given in October Cabinet Office SRP update.

October 31, 2010: Corrected due date on "Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website".

October 31, 2010: Updated "Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m" to show November 2010 due date.

October 31, 2010: Updated "Strengthen role of the Chief Information Officer" to show it as now complete.

October 31, 2010: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" to show it as now due in November.

November 9, 2010: Added "Publish first annual report on government funded major projects".

November 9, 2010: Added "Agree which of first tranche of ICT projects and programmes should be terminated or rescoped and begin decommissioning" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Added "Develop process for ongoing review of future ICT projects" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Added "Begin publication of regular status report on identified projects and programmes verifying decommissioning" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Create a level playing field for open source ICT in govt procurement" to show new deadline given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Implement open standards across govt IT systems" to show new deadline given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "We will create a 'govt skunkworks' that can develop low-cost IT applications in-house" to show new deadline given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Reform the design and procurement process for govt IT" to show new deadline and details given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Devise a government-wide strategy on digital engagement and enablement" to show new deadline given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Added "Review websites for decommissioning, working with relevant departments" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Appoint senior private sector non-executives to departmental boards" to show nine month delay in appointing the non-lead non-execs, as per timeline in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website" to show it as completed as per the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Publishing in full govt contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000" to highlight lower threshold of £10,000 as per the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Added "Support departments in developing their draft information strategies, summarising their overall plan for the transparent publication of data, including the key datasets that will be made available and when" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Create a new right to govt data" to highlight new milestones in the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Added "Work with BIS and HMT to create a Public Data Corporation" from Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Introduce a new Public Reading Stage for Bills" to show introduction date given in the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Any petition that secures 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in Parliament" to show introduction date given in the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "The petition with the most signatures will enable members of the public to table a Bill eligible to be voted on in Parliament" to show introduction date given in the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 9, 2010: Updated "Introduce a statutory register of lobbyists" to show end date given in the Cabinet Office business plan.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Develop plans to align Company House and HMRC systems to create a 'one-click' registration process for new companies" to show new completion date given in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills business plan.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Require councils to publish procurement contracts and tender documents in full" to show slight discrepancy over delivery dates.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Be the first country in Europe to extend superfast 100 mbps broadband across most of the population" to show apparent downgrading of pledge in the DCMS business plan.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Develop and issue formal guidance to all DFID country offices on scaling up participatory budgeting, cash transfers, and other measures which expand choice and empowerment to citizens in developing countries" to show delivery date delay in DfID business plan.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Develop IT solutions for automating and administering the benefit system" to show earlier delivery date in DWP business plan.

November 10, 2010: Updated "Publish detailed data about the performance of healthcare providers online" to show as complete, though actual data not checked.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Police to publish detailed local crime data statistics every month, in an open and standard format" to show a one month delay according to Home Office business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Scrap ID cards and the National Identity Register" to show as completed.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Scrap ID Cards and plans for new passports with biometric data" to show as completed.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Legislate to make sure that DNA database is used primarily to store info about those who are guilty of committing crimes rather than those who are innocent" to show date for Freedom Bill.

November 11, 2010: Updated "End plans to store email and internet records without good cause" to note that the commitment looks likely to be ditched. Final verdict will depend on the government's interpretation of "good cause".

November 11, 2010: Updated "Publish sentencing data for different types of offence for every court in an open and standardised format" to show completion date in Ministry of Justice business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Amend the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to cover more organisations and support cross-government measures to provide greater transparency" to show earlier timetable in Ministry of Justice business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Ban companies from using new peer-to-peer marketing techniques targeted at children" to show date for publication of a review given in DCMS business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Tackle marketing on corporate websites targeted at children" to show date for publication of a review given in DCMS business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Establish a new online system that gives parents greater powers to take action against irresponsible commercial activities targeted at children" to show date for publication of a review given in DCMS business plan.

November 11, 2010: Updated "Open up Whitehall recruitment by publishing central govt job vacancies online" to show deadline given in Cabinet Office business plan.

November 19, 2010: Updated "Publish all items of spending over £25,000 online" to show it as delivered.

December 5, 2010: Updated "We will create a 'govt skunkworks' that can develop low-cost IT applications in-house" to show it as overdue.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Require all MPs to publish regularly online details of their expenses claims" to note the publication of expenses by IPSA.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" to show it as ditched and replaced with a new policy on creating a Major Projects Authority.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m" to show it ditched as a separate commitment and merged in to the Major Projects Authority item.

December 5, 2010: Added "Establish a new Major Projects Authority with central oversight of all major ICT spending, with the presumption that ICT projects should not exceed £100m and accompanied by the regular publication of the size and performance of ICT projects" as a new policy commitment.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Devise a government-wide strategy on digital engagement and enablement" to show it as delivered.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Publish online details of meetings with lobbyists" to show it as delivered.

December 5, 2010: Updated "Require all credit card providers to send their customers a data file containing information on pricing and usage. This data file can be uploaded onto third party price comparison websites" to show it as overdue.

December 8, 2010: Updated "Be the first country in Europe to extend superfast 100 mbps broadband across most of the population" to link to some more sources of information.

December 13, 2010: Added "We will pilot a new 'crowd-sourcing' approach to drafting legislation, enabling expert members of the public to play a role".

December 13, 2010: Added "Shortly after the Public Reading Stage, there will be a formal Public Reading Day as part of the Committee process, so that MPs and Lords can formally consider and discuss points raised by the public".

December 17, 2010: Updated "Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m" to change it from ditched (as the November SRP update indicated) to delivered.

December 17, 2010: Updated "Appoint senior private sector non-executives to departmental boards" to link to information on first batch of appointments.

December 17, 2010: Updated "Publish online details of meetings with lobbyists" to note issue with timing of information release.

Another instance of 'late drops' will reduce the pledge from delivered to partially delivered as the manner of release is important.

December 31, 2010: Updated "Create a level playing field for open source ICT in govt procurement" to show it as overdue and note that it has been watered down.

December 31, 2010: Updated "Introduce a new Public Reading Stage for Bills" to show it as overdue.

December 31, 2010: Updated "Any petition that secures 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in Parliament" to show it as overdue.

December 31, 2010: Updated "The petition with the most signatures will enable members of the public to table a Bill eligible to be voted on in Parliament" to show it as overdue.

December 31, 2010: Updated "We will publish centrally online the Gateway Reviews when they are produced" to show it as overdue.

December 31, 2010: Updated "Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m" to show it as partially delivered rather than delivered in order to sync with Cabinet Office business plan status.

January 11, 2011: Updated "We will publish centrally online the Gateway Reviews when they are produced" to link to an example of reviews not being published. May downgrade this commitment from Overdue to Ditched.

January 11, 2011: Updated "Any petition that secures 100,000 signatures will be eligible for debate in Parliament". The December Cabinet Office SRP update lists the item as complete because proposals have been presented to Parliament, but these proposals have not been made public other than through the Guardian leak. I'm chasing up the details and will FoI them if they are not forthcoming. Until the details are available, I'm keeping this item as Overdue rather than Delivered.

January 11, 2011: Updated "Create a level playing field for open source ICT in govt procurement" to show it as delivered, although the pledge has been significantly watered down.

January 16, 2011: Updated "Work with BIS and HMT to create a Public Data Corporation" to link to the Cabinet Office press release.

January 24, 2011: Updated "Scrap the ContactPoint database" to link to additional information.

January 31, 2011: Updated "Publishing in full govt contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000" to show it as delivered and link to the contracts website.

January 31, 2011: Updated "Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website" to link to the contracts website.

February 1, 2011: Updated "Local govt spending items and contracts over £500 to be published" to link to information on how many councils are publishing data.

February 1, 2011: Updated "Repeal and revisit the Digital Economy Act" to mention Ofcom's review of website blocking provisions.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Publish online all govt tender documents for contracts worth £10,000+ via the Supply2Gov website" to link to more information.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Publishing in full govt contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000" to link to more information.

February 13, 2011: Updated "We will publish centrally online the Gateway Reviews when they are produced" to note a long delay in implementing this commitment.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Better govt IT procurement, investigating the potential of different approaches such as cloud computing and open-source software" to link to G-Cloud Phase II details.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Open up contracts to SMEs by breaking up large ICT projects into smaller components" to change status to 'ditched' to sync with 'Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m'.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Implement open standards across govt IT systems" to change status to overdue.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Reform the design and procurement process for govt IT" to mark as overdue.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Agree which of first tranche of ICT projects and programmes should be terminated or rescoped and begin decommissioning" to mark as overdue.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Require all credit card providers to send their customers a data file containing information on pricing and usage" with new information.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Details of local govt salaries to be published the same as at national level" to mark as delivered as per DCLG January update.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Publish full details of British aid on DfID.gov.uk" to mark as delivered.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Legislate to make sure that DNA database is used primarily to store info about those who are guilty of committing crimes rather than those who are innocent" to link to more information.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Introduce a new Public Reading Stage for Bills" to change status to in progress after announcement of pilot.

February 13, 2011: Updated "Shortly after the Public Reading Stage, there will be a formal Public Reading Day as part of the Committee process, so that MPs and Lords can formally consider and discuss points raised by the public" to link to additional information.

February 29, 2011: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" to change status to in progress and link to information about pilot scheme.

March 6, 2011: Updated "Develop process for ongoing review of future ICT projects" to change status to delivered.

March 6, 2011: Updated "Agree which of first tranche of ICT projects and programmes should be terminated or rescoped and begin decommissioning" to change status to delivered.

March 6, 2011: Updated "Reform the design and procurement process for govt IT" with latest progress information.

March 6, 2011: Updated "Require all credit card providers to send their customers a data file containing information on pricing and usage. This data file can be uploaded onto third party price comparison websites" with latest progress information.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Open up contracts to SMEs by breaking up large ICT projects into smaller components" with more information.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Publish performance details on all ICT projects above £1m" with more information.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Introduce a presumption against govt IT contracts worth over £100m" with more information.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Implement open standards across govt IT systems" to mark it as complete, although the standards have only been agreed at this stage, not implemented.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Reform the design and procurement process for govt IT" to show it as delivered.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Change ICT procurement to deliver better value for money" to show it as delivered.

April 10, 2011: Updated "We will create a 'govt skunkworks' that can develop low-cost IT applications in-house" to show it as delivered.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Establish a new Major Projects Authority with central oversight of all major ICT spending, with the presumption that ICT projects should not exceed £100m and accompanied by the regular publication of the size and performance of ICT projects" to show it as delivered.

April 10, 2011: Updated "Support departments in developing their draft information strategies, summarising their overall plan for the transparent publication of data, including the key datasets that will be made available and when" to show it as delivered.