Universal Credit
Work and Pensions
Frank Field (Birkenhead, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the cost of the IT system for universal credit in each sub-category of expenditure.
Mark Hoban (Fareham, Conservative)
IT investment costs over SR10 include IT development, associated integration with other systems and infrastructure requirements. These are currently estimated at £638 million over the period.
| £ million | |
| Design and development | 441 |
| Software | 51 |
| Changes to dependent systems | 14 |
| Infrastructure | 52 |
| Other | 80 |