Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 7
7
Deferred
Palace of Westminster requires extensive and costly ongoing maintenance works
Conclusion
The House Administrations undertake maintenance works across the parliamentary estate. The Clerks told us maintenance costs totalled approximately £2 million per week, with the House Administrations spending around £100 million a year.13 The sheer quantity of building and maintenance work currently being undertaken was staggering with 4,000 maintenance or reactive maintenance calls a month. Alongside this the House Administrations are managing 42 projects to repair the estate, 27 of which are in the Palace.14 Over recent years projects have included spending £140 million on temporary fire safety improvements and £8 million on temporary sewerage.15
Government Response Summary
The government's response is irrelevant to the committee's conclusion, discussing CDDO's legacy IT risk framework and remediation programmes instead of maintenance works on the parliamentary estate.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation Recommendation implemented On 19 January 2023, CDDO updated the Committee Hearing on its progress which included establishing the legacy risk framework and rolling it out across 6 departments, assessing 105 systems. On 22 May 2023, CDDO provided a further update that it has continued rollout to 16 organisations, with 153 legacy IT assets listed in the register. Furthermore, it has kept abreast of legacy remediation programmes and has seen a number of remediation programmes reach key milestones. The 2025 Roadmap, Transforming for a Digital Future, requires support and intervention from business leaders in departments to successfully deliver. CDDO is working closely with departments on all commitments, including that all ‘red-rated’ legacy systems will have agreed remediation plans in place. To date CDDO has worked successfully with more than 21 departments on this endeavour.