£1.15 Billion. Five Years. Nobody In Charge. | Public Accounts Committee

The government has spent five years and over a billion pounds trying to merge 286 separate Whitehall IT systems into five shared platforms. Yesterday, the Public Accounts Committee asked the officials responsible one simple question: what have we actually got? What followed was one of the most uncomfortable parliamentary hearings in recent memory. In this video: why the Treasury is funding a project it hasn't joined, why Capita was hired despite its track record, why the claimed £4.3 billion benefit figure has no net cost attached to it — and why, after five years, nobody can say who gets fired if this fails.