Comments on: Benefits, doubt http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/11/21/benefits-doubt/ Because all the other domain names were taken Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:04:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Fin http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/11/21/benefits-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 Fin Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:36:29 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/benefits-doubt/#comment-2848 On the plus side (yeah, well, that's as in 'on the plus side, when I was force-fed my own shit, I just instantly vomitted it back out'), I hear rumblings that this has shoved ID cards back into the 'Not quite now, things are a lot fucked' file. Oh, that and all the IT groups working on it are <b>terrified</b> at the inability/ unwillingness of the separate government departments to liaise with each other, and of the complete lack of interest by the HO in the probability of an error match still being way too high. What's got to happen to bury that dung heap? On the plus side (yeah, well, that’s as in ‘on the plus side, when I was force-fed my own shit, I just instantly vomitted it back out’), I hear rumblings that this has shoved ID cards back into the ‘Not quite now, things are a lot fucked’ file.

Oh, that and all the IT groups working on it are terrified at the inability/ unwillingness of the separate government departments to liaise with each other, and of the complete lack of interest by the HO in the probability of an error match still being way too high.

What’s got to happen to bury that dung heap?

]]> By: fatboyfat http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2007/11/21/benefits-doubt/comment-page-1/#comment-2844 fatboyfat Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:53:25 +0000 http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/blog/2007/11/21/benefits-doubt/#comment-2844 I can only answer (3). It turns out the NAO didn't actually want all of the data. I understand they only wanted some of the non-financial information. But some bright spark at HMRC apparently determined that it was too much of a job to cut out the bank details from the data tables, so just dumped the whole lot onto disc instead. I can only answer (3).

It turns out the NAO didn’t actually want all of the data. I understand they only wanted some of the non-financial information. But some bright spark at HMRC apparently determined that it was too much of a job to cut out the bank details from the data tables, so just dumped the whole lot onto disc instead.

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