The comments follow a hearing at the House of Commons, which saw minister for work and pensions Mark Hoban hit back at reports that IT contractors have walked off the project. He described the claims as a “load of rubbish”.
Hoban was responding to reports in The Guardian from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shadow minister Liam Byrne that personnel or contractors at Accenture, Atos Origin, Oracle, Red Hat, CACI and IBM UK have stepped down, or been notified by the department to “suspend work”, said Timms.
Timms told Computer Weekly: “Later in the debate, Mark Hoban read out a statement from Hewlett-Packard that it was committed to carrying on. Since Liam didn’t ask about HP, it wasn’t very reassuring about the ones he did ask about.”