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<p>Between its launch in March 2012 to 31 March 2014, the Army has paid Capita £100.380
million for the Recruiting Partnering Project. The Recruiting Partnering Project remains
within the overall agreed cost of £1.360 <ins class="ministerial">billion. </ins><del
class="ministerial">million.</del><br /><br />My right hon. Friend the Secretary of
State for Defence (Philip Hammond) set out on 14 January 2014 the cost of Capita providing
a new Information Technology platform as part of the Recruiting Partnering Project
(Official Report: column 716). At the time, these costs were expected to be around
£47.7 million directly linked to the change of hosting provision. Since this statement,
these costs have reduced to around £42.9 million. <br /><br />As previously stated
by the Secretary of State on 14 January, there has been an additional cost of around
£1 million per month to run the Capita system. This includes costs for additional
manpower.</p>
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