One to watch for incoming DG Lord (Tony) Hall - the BBC's Digital Media Initiative. The most recent Executive Board Minutes, from October, are gnomic. Zarin Patel provided an update on the position with DMI, noting that a paper would return to the Board for approval on this topic.
So I went back to the September minutes: The Board briefly discussed the report noting DMI continued to be problematic. The project was being re-planned and it was agreed that a substantive discussion should return to the Board at the appropriate point.
Hang on. The last time this project came under scrutiny from MPs it was apparently on course to deliver the complete technology for the Programme by summer 2011.
The project started back in 2008, and was budgeted at £81.7m, but promised to produce savings of £99.6m. The contract was originally placed with Siemens, but by 2011, it had been taken back "in-house"; re-budgeted at £133.6m, and the savings were re-estimated at £95.4m.
Old Ma Hodge will be sharpening her claws on some fresh meat here, methinks.
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