RE: GTAC to cost £25m - Home Office 27/3/2000

[Caspar Bowden]

Forgot to add, the Explanatory Notes when the RIP Bill was introduced said

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmbills/064/en
/00064x-d.htm
"PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCIAL COST AND PUBLIC SECTOR MANPOWER EFFECTS
354. Increases in public expenditure and public service manpower contingent
in this Bill will be limited to those arising from the expanded remit of the
existing Commissioners, the appointment of a new Covert Investigations
Commissioner and the establishment of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. But
these latter costs should be offset against the savings from removing the
Interception Tribunal, Security Service Tribunal, Intelligence Services
Tribunal and the complaints function of the Police Act Commissioners.
Overall extra costs are estimated at £750,000."

FIPR commented in it's Press Release of Feb 28th (on the Gladman Report)
that "Parliament is being hopelessly misled about the costs of
implementation".

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Caspar Bowden                Tel: +44(0)171 354 2333
Director, Foundation for Information Policy Research
RIP Information Centre at:    www.fipr.org/rip#media



> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: GTAC to cost £25m - Home Office 27/3/2000
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>
> Home Office 27/3/2000: Press Release
>
> http://wood.ccta.gov.uk/homeoffice/hopress.nsf/50e2456405b67f7
> d802566b300681
> 9dc/be319fb84f7230aa802568af0039d979?OpenDocument
> HUGE CASH BOOST TO BUILD A MODERN CRIME FIGHTING MACHINE
>
> 070/2000
>
> 27 March 2000 0171 273 4610
>
> HUGE CASH BOOST TO BUILD A MODERN CRIME FIGHTING MACHINE
>
> A total of 285 million, announced in last week's Budget, will
> be spent on
> improving and modernising....
>
> ...
>  25 million for the establishment of a Government Technical Assistance
> Centre (GTAC);
> ...
>  1.48 million on IT interfaces.
>
> [????????]
>
> ...
> Welcoming the new funding, Home Secretary Jack Straw said:
> ...
>
> "For example, much of the criminal justice system still lacks
> a modern and
> integrated IT system. The Capital Modernisation Fund will
> help us put that
> right. Making information available electronically to all the criminal
> justice agencies will save time and money....."
>
> ...
> 2. The breakdown of the CMF 157 million is as follows:
> Scheme Amount
> Government Technical Assistance Centre 25m
> Video Recording Police Interviews 21m
> DNA Database 14m
> Restructuring the Prison Estate 40m
> NSPIS 40m
> Video Links - Modernising the Court Process 5.3m
> Post-Release support hostel for prisoners after drug treatment 5m
> Electronic 'chipping' of goods 4.5m
> Project LION 0.95m
> IT interfaces 1.48m
> Total 157m
> ...
>
>