Renewing the ageing IT system at the Dutch food and product safety board (NVWA) is going to cost at least €59m more than budgeted, farm minister Carola Schouten has told MPs.

The original budget for the project was €36m but the total bill is now expected to hit €95m, the minister said is quoted as saying by broadcaster NOS.

In addition, the development process has taken 22 months longer than anticipated and the new system will not be completed until 2021. The overspend is partly due to buying additional hardware and processes to keep the current system working while the new one is being developed, she said.

The NVWA project is far from the first government IT project to run into trouble. In 2014, a parliamentary commission concluded the state is wasting between €1bn and €5bn a year on failing IT projects.

The commission was set up to look at six government IT projects which seriously overspent including the public transport smart card (ov-chipkaart), a new system for managing births, marriages and deaths, the C2000 communication system for the emergency services and werk.nl, the jobs website run by the UWV benefit centres which was beset by computer failure