The Dutch House of Representatives - Tweede Kamer - debated on software expenses of the Dutch government on June 13, 2007. This resulted from an interview in newspaper Trouw with Jan Friso Groote (TU/e and part-time seconded at CWI) and Chris Verhoef (VU). Both researchers plead for more research on this topic.
More information can be found in this Trouw article, June 4, 2007 (in Dutch)