Government Spending on IT Soars

The incompetence of the UK public sector knows no bounds. As the weather forces the UK public sector to close down - whilst the private sector struggles on - The Times reports that the current overspend on government IT projects amounts to more than £18 billion.

Many IT projects - such as the NHS CRM system - are years behind schedule and are so mired in problems that there is little prospect that they will ever be completed. The NHS project is 4 years behind. Another project to manage the dsicredited tax credit system for the HMRC was orginally budgeted at £2.9 billion. Current estimates are that this will now cost £8.5 billion.

Only in the overpaid, over-pensioned, underworked, poorly managed, bloated public sector would such incompetence be allowed to continue. So much for the famous Prince2 project management system.