The authorities of the UK spend on IT 100 billion pounds sterling.

The British government in the next five years to spend on IT-projects of 102.3 billion pounds sterling, writes The Times. According to the eight major projects will cost taxpayers in the 18.6 billion pounds.
Project implementation is overdue for several years because of the cost of some of them grew up in a few times, and spending on IT in general went out of control.
Thus, the program will translate into a digital form of all medical records in the country, which will allow 30 thousand civil servants, to receive data from the three hospitals, requires 12.7 billion pounds sterling. Four years ago, its budget was only 2.3 billion pounds sterling.
Computerization of the tax system for the Royal tax and customs administration initially estimated at 2.9 billion pounds, but is now worth 8.5 billion. At the project for database connection, the Ministry of Defense has been allocated 5.8 billion pounds, but this amount was later increased to 7.1 billion.
Many companies are running to increase the IT-spending hundreds of millions of pounds, and some tore up the contracts with the government, said The Times. In particular, Fujitsu in May 2008, ceased to operate with the authorities in the UK. Now requires a 600 million pounds, as officials were forced to make over 650 times the product at no additional cost.