By Tony Collins
Government Computing reports that the business case for the Universal Credit programme has yet to be signed off.
It appears that the Department for Work and Pensions receives money for the programme only when it needs it.
It is odd that the business case remains to be signed although the programme is more than three years old. The programme was “reset” last year.
At a hearing yesterday of the Public Accounts Committee the four top civil servants who appeared before MPs were reluctant to admit that the business case had not been signed off.
They four were:
– Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary, Cabinet Office;
– Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Home Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Communities and Local Government;
– Richard Heaton, Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office and
– Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury.
Government Computing reports that the four were “reduced to bluster”…
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