UK civil servants have been ordered to destroy reports on controversial, multi-billion-pound NHS and ID card computer projects to hide mismanagement.

'Scandal' over shredded reports - Telegraph

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"Civil servants have been ordered to destroy reports on controversial, multi-billion-pound NHS and ID card computer projects in an attempt to keep details of mismanagement from the public, it was claimed last night.

The order, given to officials at the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), was condemned by the Tories and Liberal Democrats, who accused the Government of trying to hide details of bungled computer schemes.

The guidance to officials, seen by Computer Weekly Online, has come to light as the OGC is involved in a legal battle to prevent the release of "gateway review reports" on the contentious £5.3 billion ID card scheme.
An official tribunal last month upheld a decision that the documents should be disclosed after a Freedom of Information Act request, but the OGC is appealing against the decision at the High Court. Its paper tells civil servants to shred gateway review reports, which are internal assessments of the projects.

"You must securely dispose of the [final gateway] report and all supporting documents immediately after delivery of the final report," it says.

The reports are carried out by independent specialists to monitor progress and assess the chances of success. As well as the ID card report, another has been carried out on the NHS's £12.4 billion National Programme for IT."

Appalling and indeed scandalous - but nothing this government does surprises anybody any more...)o:


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