Source · National Audit Office
Digital Services at the Border
Published: 9 Dec 2020
Recommendations: 5
Type: Value for Money
NAO confirmed: 5
Department: Home Office
This report examines the Digital Services at the Border programme to assess whether it has delivered value for money.
Recommendations
| Rec | Recommendation | Addressee | Acceptance | Implementation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Department should:
a) build on the recent progress the programme board has made in understanding risks, and its tracking of progress, to set up ways of working in line with the scale and pace of implementation it now requires to deliver the programme. This should include ensuring that feedback mechanisms with front-line users allow it to respond rapidly to their views;
Ref Page 14, paragraph 26, point a
· Implemented 04/2021
|
Home Office | Accepted | Implemented ✓ NAO |
| 2 |
b) check and plan for the implications of its mitigation actions if key elements of the programme are not ready or working effectively to the timescales it requires;
Ref Page 14, paragraph 26, point b
· Implemented 04/2021
|
Home Office | Accepted | Implemented ✓ NAO |
| 3 |
c) continue to monitor its technical capability and skills to deliver the programme during rollout and urgently rectify any key shortfalls it identifies;
Ref Page 14, paragraph 26, point c
· Implemented 04/2021
|
Home Office | Accepted | Implemented ✓ NAO |
| 4 |
d) set out and monitor the dependencies between the programme and the delivery and performance of other, related activities, and the consequences of further delay upon the benefits it expects to realise from the new systems; and
Ref Page 14, paragraph 26, point d
· Implemented 10/2021
|
Home Office | Accepted | Implemented ✓ NAO |
| 5 |
e) analyse the key dependencies the programme has with other Home Office systems, both current and planned, and set out its high-level plans for managing the time and functionality dependencies between programmes.
Ref Page 14, paragraph 26, point e
· Implemented 05/2021
|
Home Office | Accepted | Implemented ✓ NAO |
Public Accounts Committee follow-up
The Public Accounts Committee examined this NAO report and published its own recommendations. The government responds to PAC recommendations via Treasury Minutes.
12 Mar 2021
Public Accounts C…
Forty-Eighth Report - Digital Services at the Border
— 13 recommendations
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