The end of public sector contracting?

[BolshieBastard]

Holy tulip that link to tech world is awful, that's totally unacceptable in fact - how the hell doesn't the data protection act cover this?

They are allowed to do it under the DPA so long as the location where the data is held complies with the DPA standards. And of course, the data holder confirms this will be the case. Wont they?

[BolshieBastard]

But I think that's what the politicians don't like. They think that such contracts should be written in such a fashion that it makes it absolutely clear that IR35 should be applied - such that to fail to apply IR35 would probably push you in the direction of evasion rather than avoidance.

And if they want to do this - then so be it. They run the departments. If they want to issue an edict that they will only engage contracts in a clear IR35 caught basis - that's fine. The problem is that they don't want to deal with the fallout of that - either a need to increase the headline rate, or face losing key resources if they refuse.

Well, the article suggests than Government Departments can still take on contractors but, they can only be 'employed' for 6 months then must be offered permanent terms.

TBH, I can see this as just an excuse to ship in more bob's and outsource to India. At a stroke, their 'problem' of contractors not paying tax is solve. Only even more money will be lost to the exchequer in the end!

[swamp]

TBH, I can see this as just an excuse to ship in more bob's and outsource to India. At a stroke, their 'problem' of contractors not paying tax is solve. Only even more money will be donated to the Tory party in the end!

EFA

[Scoobos]

They are allowed to do it under the DPA so long as the location where the data is held complies with the DPA standards. And of course, the data holder confirms this will be the case. Wont they?

Ok, I'm once again spouting just off my gut feeling , but having worked with UK citizen data before and having a similar issue (US companies involved then though) - we were always controlled by a set of directives regarding UK citizen data staying in its DPA zones.

I know with the N3 network for example, that its that tight that English patient data can't even leave England.

I'll need to dig out my docos, and you know what I really think I'm taking this to my MP (he's so sick of me) - something doesnt seem right here.

Names addresses and phone numbers are all on that ... I'm pretty sure you have to give consent to that .