Mrs Steve Shirley, President of the British Computer Society told a House of Commons committee yesterday that if it was serious about getting skilled women back to work it would enable them to offset the cost of childcare against personal tax: Mrs Shirley also asked the Government to accept a scheme to ensure that people’s computing skills are transferable when they change jobs; she argued that senior civil servants and MPs should use computers as part of their job, adding that the Houses of Parliament might be medieval, but there’s no need for the working practices still to be at the quill pen stage.
