Go-live deadline of 2019 whooshed by - and that's going to cost taxpayer £173m Lindsay Clark Mon 15 Mar 2021 // 14:22 UTC Share Copy Stability problems with the UK Border Crossing system meant only 300 staff were able to use the delayed software in December last year, well short of the 7,000 expected to use it by June 2021, according to a report by MPs. Difficulties developing the software vital to monitoring who comes in and out of the UK is just one of the issues relating to the Home Office’s Digital Services at the Border (DSAB) programme, which was supposed to go live in March 2019, but will not be delivered until 2022, a delay that will hit the public purse to the tune of £173m.