Government wasted £125m on scrapped IT projects

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Parliamentary questions reveal extent of departmental waste over last five years

Whitehall's reputation for wasteful IT remains unblemished The government has wasted at least £125m on cancelled IT projects in the past five years, according to a series of parliamentary questio...

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