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Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

The UK Home Office is bringing the Police National Database (PND) cloud migration in-house after a transformation program faced an additional £26 million in costs and an 18 months delay.

The PND shares information across all police forces, law enforcement agencies, and regulatory bodies. The crucial system was meant to shift to the cloud, but the procurement project was delayed by more than a year, as The Register reported .

In a letter to MPs , Home Office Permanent Secretary Gareth Davies said the cloud transition had been based on "delivery assumptions" that had proven incorrect.

Davies said the Home Office had expected 80 percent of the code from the system, which went live in 2011, could be reused. In fact, only 20 percent was reusable.…