This is a joke, right? (Law change will raise costs for local council IT). Why does Socitm think that the private sector should not absorb these costs – it should. This is about disclosing the tax burden to the taxpayer. If suppliers want local government business, they should bear these costs.

This is akin to firms telling the customer, who is ultimately the taxpayer, that they will do the work but not disclose how much it will cost. These suppliers and overpaid IT consultants will increase their costs and tie all this legislation up in as much red tape as they can to make it expensive and unfeasible to do.

Ben Rattigan