FiReControl slammed as one of the biggest IT failures in years

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Commons spending watchdog says project was 'fatally undermined from the start' and that heads should have rolled

The government's scrapped FiReControl project has been labelled "one of the worst cases of project failure in many years" by the watchdog Commons Public Accounts Committee. Chair Margaret Hodge ...

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