The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) was created in May 2006 and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in May 2002. Expenditure on IT sourced externally over this period is as follows:
Financial year Expenditure (£) 2002-03 26,748,425 2003-04 20,913,037 2004-05 16,815,471 2005-06 18,108,962 Note: These figures include VAT where appropriate.
Regarding responsibility for IT projects, ODPM introduced dual key sign off in 2005-06, under which IT expenditure is approved jointly by the CIO and the relevant business manager. Prior to this responsibility rested with project Executives (formerly Senior Responsible Owner under Prince2 methodology).
There is no central record of project Executives, their expertise and qualifications; providing this information could not be achieved without incurring disproportionate cost.