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Three-Quarters of Crucial Border IT Systems at Risk of Failure -- Brexit Date is March 29, 2019

posted by martyb on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:00PM   
from the time-to-stash-some-cash-and-buy-extra-popcorn dept.

mrpg writes:

Six of the eight border IT systems viewed as critical for a no-deal Brexit are at risk of failure, compounded by their reliance on each other and the fact delivery partners aren't ready.

[...] The report, prepared before Prime Minister Theresa May said she would allow Parliament to vote on a possible delay, treats 29 March 2019 as Brexit day – but it is clear some of the issues won't be resolved by a delay of just weeks.

The NAO said that six of the eight IT systems ranked as most critical for no deal by the cross-government Border Delivery Group are "at risk of not being delivered to time and to acceptable quality".

These include Defra's Import of Products, Animals, Food and Feed System (IPAFFS) and Automatic Licence Verification System (ALVS), both of which have their IT components listed as amber-red, and HMRC's CHIEF (Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight), which is ranked as amber.

Source: Three-quarters of crucial border IT systems at risk of failure? Bah, it's not like Brexit is *looks at watch* err... next[*] month

[*] Linked story was dated 2019-02-28, so it's this month. --Ed.

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• Re:best thing to come out of Brexit? (Score: 3, Interesting) by zocalo on Monday March 04 2019, @08:56AM

  by zocalo (302) on Monday March 04 2019, @08:56AM (#809726)

  Not really, although adding up all the various numbers seems to be something few people are actually prepared to do, or if they have are not drawing attention to it because it's not positive for Brexit and anything counter to the "Will of the People" is going to attract a lot of flack from the pro-Brexit media they probably don't want. £10b (let's be realistic and make some allowance for budget errors, and other cost increases) over the lifetime of the potential project really isn't a lot of money in the scheme of things for the UK; we're currently looking to spend ~£50b on HS2 for instance.
  
  It does, however, go onto a steadily growing list of other costs to the economy that will be incurred because of Brexit. Last time I totted all those up that I was already aware of and could find with a few simple Google searches (I'm sure there are lots of others I missed) it came to about 15 years of the money we pay into the EU taking the subsidy into account, but not including what we get back in project funding and other benefits, tangible or otherwise. That was several months ago though, and I'm sure the list is considerably longer now more things have had time to creep out of the woodwork. That tally also did not even attempt to take into account and gains/losses individual businesses might see from Brexit either as those are likely to remain unknowable until they actually bite, even if we did know what the exit terms are going to be. At this point it feels like Brexit is not so much "Give me liberty, or give me death!" as "Give me liberty (from Brussels/Strasbourg, not from Westminster) and decades of austerity!"

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