Now do you see why the NHS IT project is so over-budget?

The Register's readers have been going through MP's expenses and have spotted that:

"minister of state for health services, Mike O`Brien... oversees Connecting for Health and NHS IT ... made out a cheque for £60 in response to an invoice from Domain Registry Services. Earlier that year, as El Reg reported four months earlier, Domain Registry Services was a fraud - and O'Brien attempted to stop the cheque.

(O'Brien has a degree in history and politics and was a solicitor.)"

Also spotted was that

"Ben Bradshaw, the latest media minister, and the man behind the man behind Digital Britain. Bradshaw's staff were trying to "connect the wrong end of a Scart lead to a digital TV box", we discover. Bradshaw billed £20 on expenses for the TV engineer."

With such intellectual giants running the country's IT projects is it any wonder we are in the mess we are?