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Home Office Shells Out More Than Six Billion on IT Projects

Home Office Shells Out More Than Six Billion on IT ProjectsThe 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. 

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