The Integrating Business and Information Systems (IBIS) initiative is to receive 30m pounds from the Capital Modernisation Fund, one of the Treasury’s change levers, to streamline the criminal justice system. The funding will support the integration of electronic links between the Crown Prosecution Service, police and the courts, as well as assisting other agencies involved in the fight against crime in the UK. 

Public private partnerships are increasingly being used as change levers to support public policy aims. An additional 30m pounds per year is to be made available to assist innovative local government PFI proposals which join up public services.
The new money will create a special pool of resources to support local authority PFI projects which promote cross-agency working. The successful bidder will have to demonstrate imaginative schemes for joined-up service delivery.