It was the first I'd heard of this and I was puzzled that Birt should tell me.
Lord Birt, a former BBC boss, was much criticised for working simultaneously for Downing Street and McKinsey.
Since its launch in 1953 it had achieved a degree of autonomy that Mr Birt found intolerable.
Now with BIRT Analytics, we have provided more user autonomy and thus reduced the work overload of IT.
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After her death the BBC Director General, Sir John Birt, paid tribute to Miss Dando's popularity and professionalism.
John Birt, who was then Head of Current Affairs at London Weekend Television, rang up and invited me to lunch.
Jersey's Bailiff, Sir Michael Birt, said he received the letter from Christmas which said his resignation was with immediate effect.
Lord Birt became a strategic adviser in Downing Street's Forward Strategy Unit last year and is especially examining long-term transport policy.
Judge Sir Michael Birt told the court the crimes were not victimless, real children had been involved in making "disgusting images".
Further legal arguments are due to be heard in two weeks before Bailiff Sir Michael Birt decides whether it will go to court.
Mostly privately educated, they evinced an air of superiority that grated with Mr Birt, who seldom lets us forget that his roots are in working-class Liverpool.
And Lord Birt's draft report is likely to make uncomfortable reading for Mr Byers who cut short his holiday in India to return to work on Monday.
Now committee member and Labour MP Louise Ellman has warned Lord Birt that he could receive "a knock on the door" if he fails to give evidence.
Lord Birt, who is advising the prime minister on transport, is understood to have concluded that rail investment needs to be concentrated in London and the south-east.
The same committee has recently been in dispute with Downing Street after it rejected a request for Tony Blair's transport adviser Lord Birt to give evidence on his role.
Mr Birt tried to strike a balance between a public-service broadcaster's duty to provide serious programming and the need to compete with the commercial sector for a mass audience.
If that balance continues to shift down market, Mr Birt, once vilified as a Thatcherite scourge, may yet come to be seen as the last of the old guard.
Over the meal Birt, who had devised a programme called "Weekend World, " which went out at Sunday lunchtime, told me that his interviewer, Peter Jay, was going to become British ambassador to Washington.
Lord Birt is part of the Blue Skies Forward Strategy Unit established after the general election to work with ministers and civil servants across departments, including the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Faustino Perez, director at the bank and head of the development team in the IT department, said that the bank had been dealing with its data on a mostly manual basis before BIRT, but growing volumes required more technology.
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Lord Puttnam's warnings were echoed by, among others, Tory ex-cabinet minister and former Midland Independent Newspapers chairman Lord Fowler, former BBC director-general crossbencher Lord Birt, and two former Guardian Media Group chairmen, Labour peers Lord Myners and Lord Gavron.
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