Since 1997, the Department of Work and Pensions and it's predecessor have done exceptionally well in spending money on IT projects which it then cancels. In total it has managed to spend over a quarter of a billion pounds on such projects (£289.4m).
Just over 90% of that expenditure was on just two projects, the Customer Accounting and Payment Strategy, closed in 1999-2000, and Benefits Processing Replacement Programme (BPRP), closed during this current financial year.
Worryingly, the latter project, at £127m expenditure is only the "estimated costs" at the time of closure, so Lord knows what the actual figure might be. The DWP has tried to sweeten the wastage though by stressing that in the case of BPRP just over half of the £135m money spent (around £73m) still provides "future value to the Department" so it's actually an investment!
This does of course mean that they've acknowledged they managed to piss £62 million up the proverbial wall on a project that effectively failed.
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Never mind that Dizzy. You should condemn Guido for his senseless Mili-blog story and also for his sadly potty mouth camp followers HERE.
I don't think the Miliblog story is senseless though. The pro-rata implication of the cost of the blog is clear. And why should I condemn people for swearing? It's what people do in the real world and this is the big bad Internet, it's a libertarian paradise. If you don't like it then set up you're own Internet, there is plenty of IPV6 space available to do it.
p.s. as for condemning Guido, I'm not his lover you know, we don't spend our evening plotting. He's does what he wants to the same I do what I want, and frankly he could write stuff about blue skinned disabled lesbians and it would be up to him.
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