IN yet another Government IT disaster, a £244million project to monitor dangerous criminals has collapsed.

The C-Nomis computer system was supposed to share information between prison and probation staff to allow newly-freed convicts to be properly supervised.

Work on the project last summer was frozen after costs more than doubled to £155 million.

It will now be introduced in a watered down format. And still the Government want us to trust them with an IT scheme to issue us all with identity cards.

Could we trust this Government which has a dismal record on handling people's confidential information on computers?

I think not.

COUNCILLOR D PEARSON, Roe Lee Ward, Blackburn.