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[ace00]

Some of Whitehall’s biggest computer projects have spiralled out of control, with total cost overruns of more than £18 billion, an investigation by The Times can reveal.

Plans for new computer systems are years behind schedule and have ballooned in cost; others have been scaled back or even scrapped. Yet companies continue to make hundreds of millions of pounds in profit, with £102.3 billion forecast to be spent on government IT projects over the next five years.

That's a chunk of change. An endless supply of NHS contracts awaits us all

[Mich the Tester]

Some of Whitehall’s biggest computer projects have spiralled out of control, with total cost overruns of more than £18 billion, an investigation by The Times can reveal.

Plans for new computer systems are years behind schedule and have ballooned in cost; others have been scaled back or even scrapped. Yet companies continue to make hundreds of millions of pounds in profit, with £102.3 billion forecast to be spent on government IT projects over the next five years.

That's a chunk of change. An endless supply of NHS contracts awaits us all

I actually find it quite difficult to figure out how anyone can spend 100 billion pounds on IT without the expenditure involving yachts, private jets and villas in the south of France.

[DimPrawn]

I actually find it quite difficult to figure out how anyone can spend 100 billion pounds on IT without the expenditure involving yachts, private jets and villas in the south of France.

What do you think the heads of the likes of EDS, Capita and InfoSys own?

[oracleslave]

What do you think the heads of the likes of EDS, Capita and InfoSys own?

Threaded

[ace00]

I actually find it quite difficult to figure out how anyone can spend 100 billion pounds on IT without the expenditure involving yachts, private jets and villas in the south of France.

That only takes care of a few 100m - to waste 100b requires incompetence on a biblical scale. That reminds me - what happened to Sasguru?

[Doggy Styles]

Best vote Labour at the next election.

Last time the Tories got in they cancelled a load of overrunning government projects, including one I'd just started working on. They tried to justify it with the "waste of money" line.

Which no-one believed because the government were funding the projects, not us.