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> The Home Office has also signed a £91m contract with French company Sopra Steria to set up computer terminals at 56 local libraries

Just £1.625 million per library? Does that seem a crazy amount to anyone else?

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I does seem crazy, but apparently it includes the application process as well. In general not a lot of people tend to care about this kind of thing. Governments often aren't empowered to do it, the large tech companies don't care, the idealist are busy copying the large tech companies and the hobbyist are busy with their own hobbies. Left are large consulting companies that can provide custom solutions and will charge as such.

Also, local to who? There aren't 56 points in the UK such that everyone has a local point for any reasonable definition of "local".

Local as in administered locally and not nationally.

Its astounding you didn't infer that.

Aha, thanks.

These are the only 56 libraries left that have not been shut down by the current government.

https://librarytechnology.org/libraries/ukpublic/

> libraries.org includes 4982 public libraries in the United Kingdom

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