Suppliers of information technology to the government will be held to account more in future as part of a drive to eradicate the huge systems failures of the past, the minister in charge of e-government will say today.

"We've had high-profile mistakes in a minority of cases . . . we're putting a system in place now that should make that sort of systematic failure a thing of the past," said Jim Murphy, the Cabinet Office minister with responsibility for e-government, yesterday. In a speech to a London conference today, sponsored by the Financial Times, Mr Murphy will pledge the government will use better management and monitoring of suppliers to "tackle the generic causes of failure".