Lindsay Clark

£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT

Taxpayers foot bill to get to new platform as Fujitsu package balloons to £2.44 billion

The UK's Post Office would have to cope with suboptimal IT, increased risks and costs, and reduced reporting accuracy if it didn't receive £136 million ($180 million) in government aid to keep its disastrous Horizon system running and replace it with a more modern platform.…

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns

The effectiveness of new IT systems designed to speed up asylum claim processing in the UK continues to be held back by the Home Office's failure to decommission its 25-year-old case management database, five years after it promised to retire it.…

Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount

Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout

The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.…