Budget fails to tackle bug fix

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?The government needs to wake up,' says Cheryl Gillan.

CRITICS have renewed claims that the government is failing to take the year 2000 problem seriously after Chancellor Gordon Brown all but ignored the issue in his budget statement on Tuesday, write ...

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