Posted by: OneOne Hundred
on 21 Oct 2009
The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed DEFRA, its Rural Payments Agency and the EU farm subsidies system in England. Edward Leigh, the head of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, described the situation at Defra as a "masterclass of misadministration".
The NAO report condemns the costs to taxpayers and attributes the fiasco to the Agency’s £350m IT Systems, in use for only four years.
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Posted by: Administrator
on 14 Jul 2009
Earlier this year the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, suggested that if the Conservative Party were to form the next Government they will put a cap on project size of £100m.
Posted by: Administrator
on 1 May 2009
The recent Budget suggests that the government will be cancelling major projects for the foreseeable future. Is this the right approach? Well only if the original purpose and business benefits of the project are no longer required. We don't go into major projects quickly or lightly they need an established business case and a great deal of money has been spent on them prior to the contract award.
Posted by: OneOne Hundred
on 21 Apr 2009
Red Dragon - a project by the Ministry of Defence (MOD), Welsh Assembly Government and the then Welsh Development Agency (the Welsh Authorities) to provide modern aviation repair facilities at St Athan, South Wales - has cost the taxpayer around £113 million, although it was meant to have saved MOD money and protected jobs in the area, according to a joint report released today by the National Audit Office and the Wales Audit Office. Jeremy Colman, Auditor General for Wales, is quoted as saying: "The Ministry of Defence and the Welsh Authorities failed to collaborate sufficiently throughout the project. Although for much of the time both had complementary objectives, they did not establish a common purpose for the project or a common understanding of their respective assumptions about the future of the site. The Red Dragon project highlights the danger in large and complex projects that involve multiple public bodies of insufficient openness and information sharing."
