Home Secretary  Theresa May defended the decision to terminate the eBorders contract with US firm Raytheon Systems - despite being ordered to pay hundreds of millions of pounds in damages Taxpayers were last night landed with a £500million bill for the ‘catastrophic’ IT project intended to protect our borders. An arbitration tribunal ruled the way the Home Office had terminated the contract for the shambolic eBorders scheme was unlawful. Defence firm Raytheon will now pocket £223million of public money, including £50million in damages. The settlement is in addition to the £260million the Government had spent by the time Raytheon was fired in July 2010 with the journey-logging system in disarray. Legal fees are expected to push the final bill to half a billion pounds.
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Government unlawfully scrapped eBorders contract with Raytheon Systems
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eBorders scheme intended to screen everyone coming to and leaving Britain
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It has been beset by problems leading to termination of contract this year
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But a tribunal has ruled the Government had acted unlawfully it has emerged
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