Department of Health and Social Care: ICT
(asked on 24th November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much their Department spent on (a) current and (b) legacy IT infrastructure (i) in total and (ii) purchased in 2013 or earlier in each of the last three years.
The following table shows the Department’s total spend on its core information technology (IT) systems, services and infrastructure for the last three years up to 21 November 2023, as well as the portion of this spend on legacy IT infrastructure:
Financial Year | Total IT spend | Spend on legacy infrastructure |
2021/22 | £13,060,129 | £500,000 |
2022/23 | £39,712,764 | £500,000 |
2023/24 | £12,286,521 | £250,000 |
Notes:
- The spend on legacy infrastructure reflects a small part of old infrastructure which was replaced in August 2023. The Department has been actively migrating to the cloud and has not purchased anything which could be categorised as Legacy in the last 5 years.