Computer Weekly, a magazine, says that the department has requested more than 2, 000 changes to the system.

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Tony Collins, executive editor of Computer Weekly, a trade magazine which has specialised in charting government computer-procurement failures, says that Whitehall's inbred culture has proved resistant to learning the lessons of past mistakes.

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