MoD concealed the truth on £7bn DII project costs

A report by MPs on the £7bn Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) has confirmed that the Ministry of Defence knew the costs of the project would be at least £5.8bn when parliament was given a figure of £2.3bn.

The discrepancy of more than £2bn between what the MoD knew and declared as the costs of the DII suggests that questions put by MPs to the MoD are an unreliable way for parliament, project participants and the public to find out the real costs of large, government IT-based programmes.

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-Ken