{"id":573,"date":"2006-06-19T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2006-06-19T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T22:55:00","slug":"uk-government-it-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"UK Government IT spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne<\/a> and published on They work for you<\/a>
Latest figures 2005<\/p>\n

Ministry of Transport \u00a3244,500,000
Defence \u00a3547,672,000 (operating costs) plus \u00a3134,466,000 (additions)
Northern Ireland \u00a310,724,000
Dept Culture Media and Sport \u00a364,600,000
Welsh office \u00a3176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie \u00a360 per person on IT alone!)
International Development have no clue as to what they spend
Foreign and Commonwealth Office<\/a> (FCO<\/a>) over the last five years is \u00a3478,245,262. including \u00a3180 million contract with Global Crossing<\/a> (Note: Global Crossings UK turnover was only \u00a3239m)
Duchy of Lancaster \u00a335,756,263
Treasury \u00a33,087,000
Deputy Prime Ministers office \u00a318,108,962
National health<\/span> service trust expenditure \u00a3 130,037,000 (But apparently the new programme will be \u00a312.4 billion over 10 years<\/a>, or \u00a3206 per person)<\/p>\n

That little lot is \u00a31,284,600,277 or about \u00a321 per person in the UK and remember thats just IT expenditure!<\/p>\n

And who some of the money went too…
Cabinet Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Contractor name<\/i><\/td>\n Total recorded expenditure ‘s (\u00a3)<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Computacenter<\/td>\n83,969,515<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hewlett-Packard<\/td>\n55,535,729<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atos<\/td>\n40,701,106<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cable and Wireless<\/a><\/td>\n26,554,274<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electronic Data Systems<\/a><\/td>\n23,952,188<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for youLatest figures 2005 Ministry of Transport \u00a3244,500,000Defence \u00a3547,672,000 (operating costs) plus \u00a3134,466,000 (additions)Northern Ireland \u00a310,724,000Dept Culture Media and Sport \u00a364,600,000Welsh office \u00a3176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie \u00a360 per person on IT alone!)International Development have no clue as to what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}