Prime minister Gordon Brown has admitted that the UK government’s IT strategy has “a long way to go”, after a group of Commons committee heads confronted him about its dismal performance.

Andrew Miller, leader of the Commons IT committee Pitcom, said in a meeting between the PM and committee heads that seven out of ten government projects had failed. He said serious questions had been raised about the viability of the government’s proposed ID card scheme.

Brown said that the recent HM Revenue and Customs data breach had demonstrated how important careful and secure management of data was. But, he added, the UK government is not alone in finding these issues difficult to handle.

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