{"id":30,"date":"2009-03-19T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:45:43","slug":"noms-organisation-ill-conceived-incoherent-and-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/noms-organisation-ill-conceived-incoherent-and-incompetent\/","title":{"rendered":"NOMS organisation ill-conceived, incoherent and incompetent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note with interest that the House of Commons Hansard Debates for 17 Mar 2009, pt 0003, lists a question from David Taylor, Lab\/Co-op for North-West Leicestershire, to the The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, Mr David Hanson.<\/p>\n<p>The question was &#8220;Last week\u2019s National Audit Office report on C-NOMIS excoriated senior NOMS management for an information and communications technology project whose lifetime costs have tripled to \u00a3700 million in just three years. I exculpate the Minister, who is a very able man of great integrity, but what should be done about the lamentable failures of that ill-conceived, incoherent and incompetent organisation? Perhaps the guilty parties in EDS, Syscon and NOMS could be locked up for egregious negligence as a pilot group in one of the Minister\u2019s fabled Titan prisons\u2014if there is one big enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I refer to my previous comments elsewhere about the quote from Einstein who said &#8220;the definition of insanity is repeating the same actions over and over, and expecting a different outcome&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the minister&#8217;s response see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200809\/cmhansrd\/cm090317\/debtext\/90317-0003.htm\" title=\"National Offender Management Service in Hansard\"><strong>National Offender Management Service in Hansard<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note with interest that the House of Commons Hansard Debates for 17 Mar 2009, pt 0003, lists a question from David Taylor, Lab\/Co-op for North-West Leicestershire, to the The Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, Mr David Hanson. The question was &#8220;Last week\u2019s National Audit Office report on C-NOMIS excoriated senior NOMS management for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bristolprogramming.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}