The Cabinet Office spent on average £3,664 per desktop computer for each full-time employee last year, Government figures have revealed.
The Cabinet Office revealed the eye-watering numbers in its Business Plan 2011-2015 report.
The bottom line might make it look like Cabinet Office workers are all sitting in front of the most ridiculously expensive machines in Britain, but officials played down the figures, saying they covered more than just the hardware.
According to a Cabinet Office spokesperson, the “costs cover the core infrastructure and applications – basically anything supplied by a third party.”
Internal IT staff costs were not included in the figures, which showed that the Cabinet Office spent £12.1 million buying in IT and support in 2010.
Actual desktop hardware costs were not revealed, despite requests for more information - which wasn't much of a surprise, given the Cabinet Office has previously denied a freedom of information act request regarding hardware costs.
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