Imaginado seus óculos, não consegue encontrar as chaves do carro? É uma experiência familiar para todos nós, ocupada, fazendo malabarismos com as muitas demandas de nosso tempo e cérebros, que não perdem as coisas de tempos em tempos ou as colocam no lugar errado. Um ministro do governo disse que o Ministério do Interior estava "acostumado" a perder o contato com os requerentes de asilo. Isso poderia estar conectado ao fato de que as autoridades dizem que não têm endereço atualizado? Adicionando mais uma camada ao absurdo e incompetência absoluto, parece que o Ministério do Interior tem despejado requerentes de asilo da acomodação em que colocou as pessoas para que, por isso, seria assumido pelo menos o endereço em algum momento. Ah, aqueles sistemas irritantes de TI que ferraram os postmasters, não cumpriram reformas digitais do NHS, pagamentos rurais, gerenciamento de infratores, controle de tráfego aéreo, pagamentos de benefícios, tribunais de magistrados, serviços de emergência e muito mais - tudo a um custo de contribuintes para os contribuintes. Seu projeto fracassado de e-borders custou £ 340m mais £ 185m para um processo legal contra o fornecedor Raytheon após o cancelamento do contrato, além de mais £ 173 milhões em um esquema sucessor atrasado. O Ministério do Interior havia dado "falsas garantias" ao parlamento, não havia sido aberto e transparente e continuou seu "registro miserável de programas digitais exorbitantes que não entregam para o contribuinte. dinheiro. Estúpido na frente de "especialistas" ou seus colegas. Portanto, não posso deixar de me perguntar se é por isso que alguns dos sistemas de TI que acabaram sendo pouco mais do que o óleo de cobra poderiam ter sido examinados mais de perto se houvesse mais mulheres e pessoas que realmente entendem que se envolveu na tomada de decisão. Um punhado de pessoas é levado para Ruanda antes da eleição e seus ministros prometem que aqueles que 'fugiram' serão arredondados. Que legado terrível e vergonhoso de 14 anos no governo.
But now we learn that the Home Office has ‘lost contact’ with more than 3,000 asylum seekers who it had hoped to deport to Rwanda. A government minister said the Home Office was ‘used to’ losing contact with asylum seekers. Could that be connected to the fact that officials say they don’t have up to date address? Adding yet another layer to the utter absurdity and incompetence it seems that the Home Office has been evicting asylum seekers from accommodation it has placed people into so, one would assume it at least had the address at some point.
In the modern day equivalent of ‘ the dog ate my homework’ some blame has been laid on the Home Office’s £71m faulty Atlas IT system. Ah, those pesky IT systems that screwed the postmasters, failed to deliver on NHS digital reforms, rural payments, management of offenders, air traffic control, benefits payments, magistrates courts, emergency services and more – all at huge cost to us, the taxpayers.
In 2021 The Public Accounts Committee found that the Home Office continues to struggle with IT, at a “staggering” cost to the taxpayer. Its failed e-borders project cost £340m plus £185m for a legal case against supplier Raytheon in the wake of the contract’s cancellation, plus a further £173m on a delayed successor scheme. The Home Office had given “false assurances” to Parliament, had failed to be open and transparent and had continued its “miserable record of exorbitantly expensive digital programmes that fail to deliver for the taxpayer.
It’s not only the Home Office, virtually every government department and every minister who’s breezed through their short tenure over the past 40 years has come up with a wizard scheme that will revolutionise processes, join things up and provide value for money. The IT companies, their lawyers and the teams of consultants and project managers must kick back and rub their hands with glee at the thought of another bunch of suckers who’ll believe everything and won’t be able to untangle it when the project goes over budget, isn’t on time and no one knows how to use it.
I’ve been in meetings with so many men in suits who are too vain to ask the how and why and what if questions – they don’t want to look stupid in front of ‘experts’ or their peers. We got an inkling of that from the Covid inquiry when former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara spoke of the macho culture and the tendency to ignore early warnings or raise difficult questions, to talk over or simply ignore women who tried to do just that. So I can’t help but wonder if that’s why some of the IT systems that have turned out to be little more than snake oil might have been more closely scrutinised if there were more women and people who actually understand IT involved in the decision making.
Meanwhile the Home Office scrabbles around trying to find the migrants it’s lost, fails to process the asylum claims of hundreds who’ve been waiting for months if not years just so Rishi Sunak can claim success if a handful of people get flown to Rwanda before the election and his ministers promise that those who’ve ‘absconded’ will be rounded up. What an appalling, shameful legacy of 14 years in government.
