Critical Platform Transformation Programme Accounting Officer Assessment
This sets out the main points from the HMRC Accounting Officer's Assessment of a major government programme.
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In June 2024, HMRC’s Accounting Officer undertook an assessment of the Critical Platform Transformation Programme.
Following an extensive review of HMRC cyber risk and technical debt in 2020, the programme was set up in April 2021 to modernise elements of the HMRC IT estate and reduce levels of technical debt. Original plans were for the programme to continue until March 2025. In June 2023, HMRC reviewed its portfolio of projects and programmes to identify efficiencies in delivering change.
As a result, it agreed that Critical Platform Transformation Programme should merge with Enterprise Security Programme to form a new Technical Health Programme (THP) to take forward prioritised scope from both. THP launched in September 2023 and is enabling HMRC to make efficiencies and realise the benefits of focusing on improving technical health as a single aim, rather than technical debt and security separately.
The Accounting Officer’s assessment concluded that on balance, the programme merges with the Enterprise Security Programme to form the Technical Health Programme to deliver better value for money.