I am advised that the IT projects costing over £1 million in use in the Home Department that were introduced since 1997 and have been scrutinised by the Public Accounts Committee are in the following table:
Date PAC hearing title 5 January 2000 Improving the Delivery of Government IT Projects Includes: (i) The United Kingdom Passport Agency (now The Identity and Passport Service). This IT system was introduced in 1997 (ii) The Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) Casework Programme. This project was at its inception phase in 2000 and by that stage had cost less than £1 million 26 January 2000 Home Office: The Immigration and Nationality Directorate’s Casework Programme 28 June 2000 The Passport Delays of Summer 1999 12 July 2000 Criminal Justice: Working Together. This became the Criminal Justice System IT Programme which was a joint Home Office, Department for Constitutional Affairs and Crown Prosecution Service programme 2001-02 28 November 2002 Public Private Partnerships: Airwave 2003-04 28 October 2004 Criminal Records Bureau: delivering safer recruitment. IT contract awarded in 2000 2004-05 5 July 2005 The impact of the Office of Government Commerce’s initiative on the delivery of major IT-enabled projects (Home Office, including the IND Case Information Database Enhancement Programme as a subset case study, and HMPS were witnesses). The Case Information Database was successfully rolled out between January 2001 and March 2003. The Case Information Database Enhancement Programme (April 2002-July 2003) improved it