The government spent £7.57bn on IT, networking and related costs last year, excluding staff costs, according to figures released by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
The biggest single spend, £2.33bn, was on outsourced and managed services. The next biggest bill was for telecommunications (£1.41bn), followed by networking (£1.3bn), software (£903m), systems delivery (£570m), hardware (£440m), maintenance and support (£334m), and uncategorised items (£314m).
Out of 127 government departments, the biggest spenders were local authorities (£1.51bn), the Ministry of Defence (£1.51bn), the Department for Work & Pensions (£947m), Revenue & Customs (£809m), and the Home Office (£617m).
Other heavy-spending departments were Justice, Transport, Health, and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Source:http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/07/28/242098/Outsourcing-tops-government39s-1637.57bn-IT-bill.htm
