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Craig Hale

One in four UK government computer systems are running on outdated technology — with taxpayers footing the bill for any failures

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  • A quarter of central government IT systems are bogged down by legacy tech, report claims
  • £200 billion in AI-induced savings are being left on the table
  • Modernization needs a dedicated taskforce and centralized procurement

Nearly one-quarter of the 319 central government IT systems evaluated under the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework are ‘red-rated’, which means not only that they use legacy tech and infrastructure, but they pose the highest operational risk of all systems, new research has claimed.

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