Re: Better than expected
Its not just £100 million and the wastage is not just 1% because the quirky public sector accounting systems easily allow for cover-ups of the real costs. There are lots of instances of waste & losses (not just IT) that fall under 'other' budget headings and won't show up. For example a couple of weeks ago the Insolvency Service IT system completely crashed (and not for the first time) and was off for over a week. Hundreds of staff stood around or were sent home early because the service runs a 'paperless' system and there is no effective back-up system in the event of an IT failure. Thousands of man-hours were lost but that is a staff costs not an IT cost.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
