Having looked at what the Major Projects Authority’s Annual Report 2015 tells us about major projects across government, Emily Andrews and Gavin Freeguard turn their attention to what it means for individual departments. We are very grateful to the data team at the MPA for their help with the numbers.
The Department of Health now has the most projects, closely followed by the Ministry of Defence.
- At DH, these are the data programme, changes to death certification, re-procurement of the National Pandemic Flu Service, NHS Choices and the Health and Social Care Network
- At MoD, they are the Army Basing Programme and Future Reserves 2020
- MoJ’s red-rated project is the ICT project at the National Offender Management Service.
All departments with four or more projects have at least one amber/red project. Only DCLG (which only has two) and the Attorney General’s Office (one, at the Crown Prosecution Service) have no green or amber/green rated projects. The proportion of projects rated amber/red and red exceeds one-third in four departments (MoD, DCMS, DfE and Defra), while six departments have a confidence rating of amber/green or green in over half their projects (DfT, HMRC, CO, FCO, HMT, and DfID – which only has one project). Only two departments have projects for which RAG ratings are not provided: DECC (one) and MoD (three). Twice as many RAG ratings improved as declined between 2014 and 2015.
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- Public spending Infrastructure Outsourcing
- Administration
- Cameron government
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- Institute for Government