To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
Answered on
28 February 2024
DWP Digital supports a number of legacy core IT systems. As well as the run costs of those systems there is also an element of maintenance costs which will include software updates.
The Digital maintenance budgets of the system owners which include the legacy system costs for the last three years is as follows:
| 21/22 | 22/23 | *23/24 | Total |
Maintenance Budget | 114,700 | 83,900 | 87,200 | 285,800 |
Maintenance Spend | 80,900 | 82,000 | 83,700 | 246,600 |
*23/24 spend figures are based on the latest forecast as at Period 9.
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