7 take the estimated £3.2 billion annual savings in the cost of IT into account when determining departmental settlements, taking note of savings already made where appropriate and any substantial concentration of major IT-enabled change projects in particular departments;
8 fully integrate management information on IT spend into departmental processes and ensure that this data and the associated benchmarking statistics are collected on a regular, consistent, auditable and transparent basis;
9 strengthen the governance of IT-enabled change projects (including the requirement that ministers and accounting officers are regularly updated on high- risk projects and briefed on projects where the delivery confidence is not high);
10 strengthen the existing Gateway assurance processes (including the introduction of
"starting gate" reviews of all IT-enabled change projects);
11 implement portfolio management processes within departments to prioritise the most important IT-enabled change projects and resources and to reduce the overlap and duplication in IT-enabled change projects across the public sector;
12 give government Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and OGC Collaborative Category Boards the responsibility for achieving greater standardisation and simplification of IT systems, desktops, infrastructure and applications across the public sector; and
13 develop the internal IT capability within the public sector and continue to professionalise the IT function.