The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is warning that the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) IT systems are outdated, inefficient, expensive and at constant risk of failure or cyber-attack. 

Yorkshire Water is seeking partners to operate on a framework for the provision of a wide range of IT infrastructure goods and services worth up to an estimated £67 million in total.

Scottish Water has gone out to tender with a contract to find Information Technology Directorate Partners worth up to an estimated £300 million.

Anglian Water has awarded an IT contract to put an infrastructure and application development framework in place worth an estimated £100 million.