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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 17 March 2009.

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Photo of David Taylor David Taylor Labour, North West Leicestershire 2:30, 17 March 2009

Last week's National Audit Office report on C-NOMIS excoriated senior NOMS management for an information and communications technology project whose lifetime costs have tripled to £700 million in just three years. I exculpate the Minister, who is a very able man of great integrity, but what should be done about the lamentable failures of that ill-conceived, incoherent and incompetent organisation? Perhaps the guilty parties in EDS, Syscon and NOMS could be locked up for egregious negligence as a pilot group in one of the Minister's fabled titan prisons—if there is one big enough.

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Michael Hallam
Posted on 18 Mar 2009 1:39 pm (Report this annotation)

I have a great deal of time for Mr. Taylor but I do wish he would use the perfectly good english he learnt at school instead of obscure words which may well show his knowledge but lose the point of his argument!

Clive Caulfield
Posted on 18 Mar 2009 5:11 pm (Report this annotation)

I agree with Mr Hallam. I would be interested to know which school in Leicestershire was responsible for his use of words with which the majority of us have need to consult a dictionary to find a meaning.

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