There are numerous barriers the Government will have to overcome with the consumerisation of IT as ministers start to use iPads in the Chamber, according to a member of the House of Lords.
Lord Erroll told delegates during the first keynote of InfoSecurity Europe 2011 change was inevitable and "anyone who didn't like change should go and do something else."
However, the Government faces the same challenges as the average organisation when it comes to the consumerisation of IT, in particular managing what data can be accessed and where it can be taken, he said.
Another issue would be members of Parliament getting information before ministers on whatever topic is being discussed.
"Well I say, bad luck minister If you lock everything down then your knowledge is unusable," Erroll said.
He was speaking after Labour MP Kerry McCarthy last month became the first British politician ever to deliver a speech from an iPad in Parliament.
It appears there will still be barriers to the use of new technologies in Government though.
"If I go along to the House of Lords and say I want multiple screens, they'll ask why," he added.
"It really frustrates me I can't just sit and write apps like I used to be able to."
He said organisations of all kinds need to have the latest technology as that is where innovation derives from.
"New ideas will often come from the people with the new technology," Erroll said.
"There is a constant battle between control - and there has to be control very often - and innovation."
Government 'can't keep up'
Moving onto cyber crime, he bemoaned the Government's willingness to reorganise departments, rather than focus on catching the bad guys.
"The Government can't keep up because it is too busy reorganisaing instead of catching criminals," he added.
"I really worry when there is another reorganisation every time you reorganise you hand the other people a free ride."
A recent report from the Institute for Government criticised the administration for wasting billions because of IT failures.
