A Conservative shadow minister has said that a Tory government would learn the lessons from past IT catastrophes, although he didn't go as far as promising an end to them.
The BBC's File on 4 programme asked Conservative health spokesman Stephen O'Brien whether a Conservative government would put an end to IT catastrophes.
Giving such a commitment would be "foolish and over-optimistic", given that government ministers are not the people delivering the product, O'Brien said.
"But I'm very confident the one thing we can do is learn the lessons from experience," he added. "I am confident that our process will minimise the chances for what are design errors."