The public administration select committee has commended the government on making progress to tackle the well known problems associated with public sector IT, but warns it has not done enough to address concerns around skills, legacy equipment and allegations of "cartel-like" behaviour among suppliers.

The committee published a report in July 2011 entitled, A recipe for rip-offs: time for a new approach, that listed its concerns about the public sector's overdependance on the same large IT providers, lack of ability to make any large-scale change to how it uses IT, and issues around skills and legacy equipment.

The committee has now published a progress report examining how far the issues raised by the original report have been addressed.