June 09, 2005
Thursday
Governments are not good at running things
Earlier this week, the Conservative Party collected together some data about how the awesome way government has wasted money on computer projects:
...a new courts computer with an original budget of £146 million, rocketed to almost £400 million; a move of the GCHQ spy centre computers to a new building cost a staggering £450 million, instead of the projected £20 million; and a new national insurance payments system turned out at £90 millions over budget, after mistakes and problems had to be corrected.
More here.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Waste in public services
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