By David Bicknell
Information Age has written an interesting piece examining the Cabinet Office’s scrutiny of IT projects worth over £1m.
It says that despite pledging to publish regular performance data on IT projects worth over £1m, the Cabinet Office is not even collecting the data.
It reports, “The Cabinet Office is not collecting data about the performance of government IT projects worth over £1 million, despite having made a commitment to publish this information regularly as open data.
“In February 2011, the Cabinet Office published performance data for all major IT projects up until July 2010 (just before the current government came into office) on open data portal data.gov.uk. At the time, it said that the data would “updated regularly”, but that “the specific form of future publications has not yet been determined”.
A Freedom of Information Act request from Information Age revealed that the Cabinet Office is not collecting this data. In its response to the request, the department revealed that it holds “no recorded information … relating to the performance of ICT projects over £1m”.
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