new rules of process & digital signatures

[Alan Burkitt-Gray]

	Thomas Roessler wrote: 

	Tony Blair has stated he wants a percentage of government business
done by electronic means within a short period, and by a certain date he
wants all government business. I don't have the article to hand so am not
going to risk number


Not quite right. He said in Oct 1997 that he wants 25% of business TO BE
POSSIBLE electronically by 2002. The Modernising Government white paper,
published in March 1999, developed the targets so now it is "50% of dealings
SHOULD BE CAPABLE of electronic delivery by 2005 and 100% by 2008". The
White Paper's available on-line and you'll find analysis of  Cabinet
Office's Central 



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