Securing our Technical Future Programme Accounting Officer Assessment (updated)
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 a further assessment of the Securing our Technical Future Programme.
The programme was established in 2018 to stabilise HMRC’s IT estate, some of which was aged and out of support. The primary objectives of the programme were to remediate high priority vulnerabilities; exit 3 ageing data centres and ready the estate for a move to new destination platforms – Cloud and Crown Hosting.
Following an HMRC project and programme review in 2023, it was decided that the programme should prioritise the migration of Critical National Infrastructure services that support HMRC’s most important operational activities. By the end of the 2023 to 2024, 372 business services had migrated out of the legacy datacentres. Where services in scope are no longer needed, the programme has retired them, undertaking associated decommissioning work.
Deliverables no longer in scope for the programme will either be taken forward by HMRC’s Technical Health Programme or have been fully documented into a log to be managed by the head of IT Strategy and Architecture to seek alternative delivery vehicles.
The Accounting Officer’s Assessment concluded that the programme remains value for money and deliverable.
You can read the previous version of this assessment summary, published in February 2020, on The National Archives website.