Kevan Jones
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IT Systems (Army Recruitment)
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Mr Hammond
First, we need to be careful about succumbing to the temptation which there always is in this House to blame Capita.
Mr Hammond
No, I did not. It is Atlas that has failed to deliver an IT platform that Capita can utilise effectively.
To answer the question of the hon. Member for Colchester (Sir Bob Russell), just under 1,000 personnel are involved. Some of them have been surged into front-end recruiting and are acting as military recruiters on the ground, and others are providing manual support for administrative tasks that should be, and ultimately will be, carried out by the IT platform.