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Successful projects from Round One of the Capital Modernisation Fund

• £470 million as part of the National IT Strategy to provide 1,000 IT learning centres across the country;
• £430 million invested in the NHS to modernise Accident and Emergency departments and give patients better access to primary care;
• £170 million to make communities safer, funding security measures which build on the Crime Reduction Programme and provide a substantial boost to the Government's fight against crime;
• £100 million for improvements and modernisation of the London Underground;
• £68 million to provide resources for the Department of Education and Employment (DfEE) to develop a sophisticated IT and call centre system to match job seekers to employers online;
• £50 million for enhancements customer use of London Buses;
• £50 million support for the National Police radio programme;
• £31 million support for the set-up of Partnerships UK;
• £30 million for a concerted health programme to deliver action on cataracts;
• £30 million will fund cross-departmental IT linkages between the criminal justice departments in the form of a central challenge fund;
• £28 million to fund the MIT and Cambridge University link to improve UK competitiveness and entrepreneurship;
• £23 million for Customs X-ray scanners;
• £17 million to set-up police DNA databases;
• £14 million for meningitis vaccinations
• £12 million to provide a global network of British information and services abroad. Network of one-stop shop information kiosks built on interactive websites to deliver information on the qualities Britain has to offer;
• £10 million in the DSS Welfare Modernisation Fund for new IT investment;
• £8 million to support volunteering in the 'Active Communities' project;
• £4 million support for Adding It Up, a project to enhance government analysis and modelling;
• £2.8 million for the Driving Standards Agency for hand held computers for driving examiners to record test results in the car and transmit results to allow the automated issue of driving licences;
• £2 million for the Ministry of Defence's biological munitions disposal project;
• £1.1 million to pump-prime various e-commerce procurement initiatives across Government - in particular to develop a Government "Shopping Mall" to provide electronic tendering of low-value transactions to and from Government, which could save over £10 million a year;
• £600,000 for electronic procurement by Foreign and Commonwealth Office posts overseas; and
• £440,000 will fund a DVLA project to fit Automatic Number Plate Reader technology to roadside cameras to detect unlicensed vehicles.)