Treasury admits 90% target missed
3 April 2012
The government has been forced to admit that it has missed its target of making 90 per cent of low-value, high-volume purchases electronically by the end of March.
Andrew Smith, chief secretary to the Treasury, made the admission recently in response to a parliamentary question by Barbara Follett MP.
By the end of March, only 50 per cent of low-value transactions were electronic. Fax and telephone transactions were excluded from the figure, although they had been included in previous definitions.
The Office of...