"There are organisations out there who are viewed as highly good at verifying you are who you say you are. We shouldn't be re-inventing that wheel."
Appearing alongside Maude before the Commons Public Administration Select Committee, Ian Watmore, chief operating officer of the Efficiency and Reform Group, said "If the banks have a good ID platform, we will not need to build our own but re-use market-based solutions that already exist."
Maude also revealed that the new Major Projects Authority would be monitoring programmes such as the social security benefits reforms to ensure that they stick to the new principles.
He said that the threshold for IT projects requiring his personal approval has been lifted from £1m to £5m. While he conceded that the Cabinet Office does not have the formal power to direct departmental policy, "The ability to say 'no' is a pretty good start."
Much of the questioning from MPs was on the government's commitment to meeting its target of ensuring that 25% of spending goes to small and medium sized companies (SMEs). Maude said the government is "pressing hard" for deregulation in the European procurement process. He criticized the way officials had "massively embellished" guidance on IT procurement, which he said now runs to 6,000 pages.
Watmore promised to find ways of ensuring government suppliers paid their SME subcontractors promptly.
Maude also robustly defended the decision to set up a website to display crime maps, rather than just releasing the raw data. "We got the crime data out there for £180,000 - I'd say that's pretty damn good!"
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Quelle/Source: UKauthorITy, 31.03.2011
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