Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Home Office wastes £347m on botched IT scheme
‘The scheme was eventually binned in August last year after delivering “significantly less than planned”, despite racking up a whopping £347m in costs.
But the Home Office has another scheme up its sleeve which it insists will have a more agile approach.
“A new Immigration Platform Technologies programme is replacing ICW and is trialling an agile approach, focusing on incremental improvements,” it said. “It still has far to go to have a significant impact and will cost £209m over four years.”‘
