DfT unaware of £25m payout they made to IT company
MPs have revealed that the Department for Transport’s permanent secretary was unaware it had paid £25m to an IT company for work on the Transport Direct project.
The House of Commons Transport Committee’s annual 2005 report into the Department for Transport (DfT) said permanent secretary David Rowlands "seemed unaware that almost £25m had been paid to Atos Origin IT Services for DfT’s electronic information system".
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