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Some Numbers For Your Consideration…

Posted on April 4, 2006
Filed Under UK National Database and ID Card |

We’ve blogged before about the disastrous National Programme for Information Technology (see here). NPfIT is the NHS plan to centralise all patient record keeping on yet another Big Brother style supercomputer. Originally budgeted at £2.3bn, it’s now reckoned likely to cost up to £50bn, and it’s the largest civilian IT programme in the entire history of the world.
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The disastrous Scottish Parliament project was completed pre-blogging. But yesterday’s partial roof collapse shows you can never finally draw the line under a real government spending fiasco. Just as a reminder, the original cost estimate was a range of £10-40m (1997 White Paper). The eventual cost was £431m- more than ten times over the high end of the original range of estimates.
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Commenting on the publications of the report extracts, Home Office Minister Andy Burnham said: “We are confident in our cost estimates for the ID Cards Scheme and I am very pleased that confidence is shared by KPMG… The total average annual running costs for issuing passports and ID cards to UK nationals is currently estimated at £584m.
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