Labour admit IT has been 'problem'

12:46 26th September 2008

A number of Labour politicians have admitted that the party has run into considerable problems with major IT programmes over the past ten years.

MPs at the party's annual conference suggested that the government has found procurement, project management and specifying what it wants from IT particularly challenging.

Charles Clarke, former home secretary, said: "I would say that, to the credit of the government, it has tried to see the potential of IT, and tried to use it. But in so doing, it has run into all kinds of problems."

Mr Clarke also identified that in future the government needed a stronger partnership with the IT industry.

Jim Knight, minister of state for schools, insisted that the UK is a world leader in the application of technology to education, but admitted that adoption of IT in other areas had not been so trouble free.

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