Whitehall is wasting an ‘obscene’ amount of public money on IT systems, a report by MPs admits.The report cites some Whitehall departments who blow an average of £3,500 on a desktop computer, while they can be bought for as little as £250 on the High Street, 14 times cheaper.
Ministers have created a ‘recipe for rip-offs’ by buying from a cartel of suppliers at massively inflated prices, it says.
Billionaire retail magnate Sir Philip Green last year produced a report which catalogued staggering examples of Whitehall waste. Claiming his Topshop business would ‘go bust’ if it was run like the Government, he told ministers they could slash £20billion a year from public spending without sacking a single civil servant.
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