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    Efficiency drive loses government £81m

    Efficiency drive loses government £81m

    Department for Transport efficiency drive to save £57m sets it back by £81m

    Author Writer Date published May 23, 2008 Categories

    An efficiency drive meant to save The Department for Transport £57m actually
    cost it £81m, according to an NAO report.

    The new computer system, which cost £120m was insufficiently tested.
    ‘Decisions to save money on system testing proved to be a false economy,’ the
    report stated.

    Public Accounts Committee chairman Edward Leigh likened the problems to
    sitcom Yes Minister: ‘ [The DFT] has managed to implement an efficiency drive
    that would have been familiar to Sir Humphrey Appleby.’

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