“What on earth possessed the Home Office and the National Offender Management Service to appoint someone whom they knew didn’t have sufficient experience or training to run this project properly?  Such stupidity defies rational analysis. 

“There is now a real danger that the failures of schemes like C-NOMIS are losing their power to shock.  So many government computer schemes begin life by underestimating complexity and overestimating the chances for success. 

“No-one seriously believes C-NOMIS will be the last great computer disaster made in Whitehall but the government must find a way to break the cycle of failure.  Taxpayers cannot afford to put up with this any longer”.