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The biggest tech projects to be scrutinised by the UK government spending watchdog next year will be an overhaul of tax IT, the Rural Payments Agency's troubled systems, and the Ministry of Justice's court transformation project. Speaking to The Register at the Global Tax Summit, Meg Hillier, chairwoman of Parliament's Public …

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  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    'She said while Brexit might solve the issue of the disallowance fines from Europe, the more immediate problem of farmers "is down to the British government" and its failure to implement a fit-for-purpose IT system.'

    I thought one of the facets of Brexit was that we'd be out of the CAP, farmers won't get any more payments, they won't be able to recruit cheap foreign migrant labour* and will go out of business so the IT system for paying them simply won't be needed.

    *They might be able to recruit UK migrant labour when all those businesses established here as an EU base for non-EU corporations close down.

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      "will incur penalties from the EU of £180m per year"

      Oh well, might as well just pay the penality for the next two years and then do nothing.

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  2. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

    You'd think...

    You'd think that with all these mega projects and programmes that .Gov is running, that one of their departments, say... the OCG for example, would at the very least come up with a half decent structured methodology for managing th...

    Oh...

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    What oligopoly?

    More like a monopsony. You get the suppliers you select and you write the rules ...

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    "And the big supplier knows how to bid."

    Too true.

    And they have the deep pockets to put up with the years of bidding till they get to f**k the government over 3x.

    UK farmers AKA "Barley Barons" get shedloads of cash through the CAP.

    AFAIK "soft" Brexit, "hard" Brexit either way the EU money machine will stop paying out.

    So either HMG picks up the whole tab for the CAP (and you can bet the NFU will lobby like crazy for that) or there's going to have to be a serious downsizing in farm payments. Which I think is code for the Welsh hill farmers getting the s**tty end of the stick.

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