Expenditure on the Digitisation of Vital Events project of civil registration records
Published 29 January 2014
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FOI release 29569
1.The project was suspended from August 2011 but had been in a pause status since September 2010.
2.Work on the Digitisation and Indexing project was in a pre-procurement stage at the point it was suspended. In terms of digitsation of records, Siemens were paid £8.33 million under the DOVE project,which represented payment only for the records actually digitised.
3.Current estimates (as of August 2012) for the completion of the digitisation project are £25-30 million. This includes the digitisation and indexing by the scanning and transcription of 133m civil registration records and the associated non-digitisation costs relating to image storage, system interfaces and development of the online ordering site.