Offender IT failure 'a shambles'

Offender IT failure 'a shambles'

A government IT project for tracking offenders in England and Wales through the criminal justice system was a "shambles", MPs have said.



Officials in charge of the scheme - abandoned after costs trebled - lacked even a "minimum level of competence", the Public Accounts Committee found.

So, an IT system which was estimated to cost £234m actually ended up costing £690m and was then quitely abandoned. Furthermore, another £161m was spent but nobody knows what it was spent on or where it went. Given that NOMS has an audit to account for expenditure, I have difficulty accepting this amount can go walkabout without leaving some kind of paper trail.

Not fit for purpose, springs to mind.