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11 years 7 months ago #112839 by Jim Allison BSc, Inst LE, MBIM; MA (Consumer Protection & Social Welfare Law)
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DWP refused to release Universal Credit IT review to MPs
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to provide MPs with a copy of a new report into the state of the IT developed for the troubled Universal Credit project.
Universal Credit director general Howard Shiplee was asked by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at a hearing last month to report back once he had completed a review to assess whether the IT developed so far for the government’s flagship welfare reform programme had any value.
The National Audit Office (NAO) had previously revealed in a report that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had already written off £34m of IT work that could not be re-used. MPs on the committee subsequently heard that as much as £200m of Universal Credit IT work could yet be scrapped – but that Shiplee’s review would provide the answers.
Computer Weekly has seen a copy of Shiplee’s follow-up letter to PAC chair Margaret Hodge MP, in which he suggested that much of the IT can in fact be re-used, but avoided providing details.
“I explained at the recent hearing that I had brought in independent experts… to review the existing IT build, only part of which has so far been deployed in the Pathfinder... This has led me to conclude that there is substantial real and intellectual value in the work undertaken by the department and its suppliers up to February 2013,” wrote Shiplee.
“My response therefore to the question is that it is clear that there is existing utility not yet deployed that, with some investment, would be scaleable through to 2017. The economic case to support this will be in the refreshed business case for agreement with HM Treasury.
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Posted for information only, as the office is closed at weekends.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has refused to provide MPs with a copy of a new report into the state of the IT developed for the troubled Universal Credit project.
Universal Credit director general Howard Shiplee was asked by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at a hearing last month to report back once he had completed a review to assess whether the IT developed so far for the government’s flagship welfare reform programme had any value.
The National Audit Office (NAO) had previously revealed in a report that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) had already written off £34m of IT work that could not be re-used. MPs on the committee subsequently heard that as much as £200m of Universal Credit IT work could yet be scrapped – but that Shiplee’s review would provide the answers.
Computer Weekly has seen a copy of Shiplee’s follow-up letter to PAC chair Margaret Hodge MP, in which he suggested that much of the IT can in fact be re-used, but avoided providing details.
“I explained at the recent hearing that I had brought in independent experts… to review the existing IT build, only part of which has so far been deployed in the Pathfinder... This has led me to conclude that there is substantial real and intellectual value in the work undertaken by the department and its suppliers up to February 2013,” wrote Shiplee.
“My response therefore to the question is that it is clear that there is existing utility not yet deployed that, with some investment, would be scaleable through to 2017. The economic case to support this will be in the refreshed business case for agreement with HM Treasury.
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