It has broke down where the savings for the new Comprehensive Spending Review target of £35bn will come from. For each department it has given possible examples of where the department will create efficiency savings. Of the examples that involve IT, £1.526bn of savings could be made.
The department to potentially make the biggest savings in IT was the Home Office. The Budget said up to £1bn could be saved by the use of technology to save police time. It estimated that 40,000 extra mobile data devices will be made available for officer use. Another £150m could come from efficiencies in the UK Border Agency. The Budget said the agency could speed up the processing of asylum and migration applications and, using iris and facial recognition technologies, provide a faster service to legitimate travellers at the border.
The Ministry of Justice, who is expected to achieve £1.08bn of efficiency savings by 2010/11 could make £120m of savings from the Prison Service's shared services centre. The Budget said it could provide back-office shared services for 128 prisons and other government departments.
Sticking with the back-office theme, the Department of Health could make up to £100m of savings through the NHS Shared Business Service, the Budget said.
The remaining IT efficiency savings included:
- the Foreign and Commonwealth Office could save £18m by moving some provisions from the British Council, £6.6m by reducing back-office activity and £9.5m through improved telecoms contracts
- the Department for International Development (DfID) could save £6m from back-office efficiencies and £5m from better use of the internet and social media websites
- the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) could save £3m in IT costs from a new digital strategy
- the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) could save £10m by enabling greater use of hot-desking and "portable IT solutions"
- the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could save £15m through its shared services programme and £28m through improvements to its housing benefit and council tax benefit administration
- HM Revenue and Customs could save over £50m by enhancing online tax filing and
- the Cabinet Office could save around £5m by implementing a shared services set-up.
Local government is expected to hit £5.5bn of efficiency savings for the new CSR target, a large amount of which is expected to come from IT projects.
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Quelle/Source: Public Service, 23.04.2009
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