Geoff Jones

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UK Government IT spending

Extracted from questions asked by Chris Huhne and published on They work for you
Latest figures 2005

Ministry of Transport £244,500,000
Defence £547,672,000 (operating costs) plus £134,466,000 (additions)
Northern Ireland £10,724,000
Dept Culture Media and Sport £64,600,000
Welsh office £176,161.40 (Thats for less than 3m people ie £60 per person on IT alone!)
International Development have no clue as to what they spend
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) over the last five years is £478,245,262. including £180 million contract with Global Crossing (Note: Global Crossings UK turnover was only £239m)
Duchy of Lancaster £35,756,263
Treasury £3,087,000
Deputy Prime Ministers office £18,108,962
National health service trust expenditure £ 130,037,000 (But apparently the new programme will be £12.4 billion over 10 years, or £206 per person)

That little lot is £1,284,600,277 or about £21 per person in the UK and remember thats just IT expenditure!

And who some of the money went too…
Cabinet Office

Contractor name Total recorded expenditure ‘s (£)
Computacenter 83,969,515
Hewlett-Packard 55,535,729
Atos 40,701,106
Cable and Wireless 26,554,274
Electronic Data Systems 23,952,188

IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Officer

Chris Huhne recently asked the government for details of IT expenditure at the Deputy Prime Ministers office since 2002 and Department for Communities and Local Government since 2006.
The answer is :-

Financial year Expenditure (£)
2002-03 26,748,425
2003-04 20,913,037
2004-05 16,815,471
2005-06 18,108,962

and this lovely bit “There is no central record of project Executives, their expertise and qualifications;”

So Ellee Mr Milibands £40,000 seems to be chicken feed compared to this lot! Chris has also been after the other departments as well – be interesting to add them all up!

Wetpaint

Just invited today to try the latest in online web creation pages at Wetpaint. It transpires that it is just a hosted wiki site, cant see that it contains a blog as well, hard to see how this moves the game along at all. As for competing with MySpace well!

The page I have started to create is here seems to offer less than the Google pagemanager software, the page I created on that software is here

Frank’n Stein frozen moment


Frank’n Stein frozen moment
Originally uploaded by geofones.

Emily came across this site today detailing some of the history of the Fiendish feet yogurt pots. These were conceived and developed by her mum, Jacqueline O’Neill, in the period 1988/89 just before she left Swindon.

I’ve hung onto this promotional pot which was also developed by Jacqueline to give out to supermarket buyers a nice touch was the tasting spoon.

Unfortunately after she left St Ivel to have Emily. St Ivel decided in their wisdom to hopelessly devalue the concept and change it to Fiendish Faces.

Here is a promotional set of 4 pots (still with the foil seals). They are:-
Rattle ‘n’ Roll Chocolate flavour.
Spooky Wooky Banana flavour.
Frank ‘n’ Stein Rasberry flavour.
Fangs a lot Strawberry flavour.