5.1.12 Having taken heed of the Committee's concerns, the DCS appointed a Government Information Technology Officer (GITO) at deputy- director general level in 2012. By February 2014 it reported that it had reduced its IT-consultants from 180 in 2008/9 to 31, and only in areas requiring specialist skills. The IT-related shortcomings reported in the 2012/13 financial year, related to transversal systems mainly, and could therefore not be ascribed to the DCS entirely.