Adviser calls for more transparency on procurement to prevent future scandals
More must be done quickly to build trust in government processes and decision-making in the wake of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, a civic society leader has said.
Kevin Keith, who contributed to the development of the Cabinet Office’s latest action plan for open government published last month, said the wrongful conviction of subpostmasters due to a failed IT system showed transparency across Whitehall is not “peripheral to people’s lives”.
Mr Keith, chairman of the UK Open Network, said further work is required to reach the
