Home Office Shells Out More Than Six Billion on IT Projects

Home Office Shells Out More Than Six Billion on IT Projects

The Home Office is reported to be allocating over £6bn in IT projects, inclusive of the National Identity Scheme budget. UK's overall IT spending consist of £370m on a new immigration casework system slated to conclude on 2015, £749m on the e-Borders system for monitoring trips to and from the UK, and £330m on building and operating a civil service criminal vetting scheme, scheduled by yearend.
 

Another £12.4m is shelled out on on identity cards for foreign nationals and £41m on a shared services project.

 

The Home Office has several other schemes including the cross-government Interception Modernisation Programme.  This was introduced by the prime minister February of last year and is now under evaluation. Analysts say this project could cost up to £12bn, by which a huge chunk of the budget goes to its communication database.