Management of UK govt's £158b property estate held back by failed IT project
The UK government has failed to get a grip on the management of its £158 billion property portfolio because of a failure to replace an ageing database system., Cabinet Office, which helps run cross-departmental government, does not have the data or IT system necessary to oversee and manage the government estate, which costs around £22 billion a year to maintain.
“Good data is essential so that government can manage and maintain its property efficiently. In 2020, the Cabinet Office shifted from collecting data on the civil estate, such as offices and warehouses, to collecting data on all government property, including for example, hospitals and schools. However, the existing government property database, the seventeen-year-old ePIMS system, is unable to accommodate this additional data,” the report from the Public Accounts Committee said.
Following a series of hearings, the committee concluded the Cabinet Office’s efforts to update its system have so far been unsuccessful. “Until the new system is up and running, the Cabinet Office will continue manually collecting property data from departments,” it said.
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