Leave aside the scale of the task – how sensible was it ever to aim for an all-encompassing system spanning the whole service? The aims may have been laudable, but experience suggests that a critical factor in successful delivery of IT systems is constant engagement with potential users, taking into account their views as...

We’ve produced our report, Read Before Burning. We had in the autumn the results of the Government review. Today, we heard coruscating criticism from the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the way the government carried out its review.

Ministers have already said that the list does not represent current policy. But the desire to rein back the quango state was already clear in the coalition agreement and earlier announcements.