Gov.UK annual IT spend edges down... to £4.3 BEEELLION

Government IT costs edged down by 8.5 per cent across the nine biggest Whitehall spenders to £4.3bn for 2013/14 compared with the previous year. Back office systems account for the lion's share of running costs, with more than 80 per cent of IT budgets going on this area, according to El Reg's analysis of government spending …

[localzuk]

Breakdown of costs

It'd be great to see a breakdown of costs for this spending. Is it mostly going on external contractors? Staffing? Bespoke software? Maintaining legacy systems?

Its a heck of a lot of money going on IT, yet we see a constant stream of articles about their mess ups.

[James 51]

Re: Breakdown of costs

Will be a circle filled in red labelled welfare.

[NeilMc]

No Mention of DWP?

Did we not hear in the last couple of weeks that the system that supports the flagshit Universal Credit (LOL) service needs a massive upgrade (PC language) for another fecked up system from a supplier that the Civil Service has no balls or brains to take to task to fix.

So lets just (tug off the Treasury) for a few more Bellllioooons to fix the last crowds feck up and hope these guys do a better job.

Personally I would prefer to put a bunch of 5 year olds in charge of Govt spending.