Computing uncovers £50m ID card consultant costs

Posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 by Home Office Watch
Category: ID Cards

A Freedom of Information request by Computing magazine reveals:

The government has spent £53m on consultants for the national biometric identity card scheme, and continues to use 83 external contractors at a cost of nearly £50,000 per day.

The figures are more than double the value of the original £19m pre-procurement consultancy contract signed in 2004.

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