Surrey County Council for the county of Surrey was created in 1888 and moved to Kingston in 1889 from Newington when Newington was incorporated into London. The Conservative controlled council has 80 councillors. IT Leader:Paul Brockelhurst, Head of IT Reporting line: Reports to strategic director Board level seat:No IT budget:  Turnover is £1.6 billion IT estate and or number of log on accounts under the control of the IT leader:9,000 log ins, and 30,000 members of staff IT staff currently employed:150 Split between in-house/outsourced staff: All in house IT management team and reporting structure: Five people responsible for business solutions, technical architecture, applications architecture, partnership and customers, commercial management Primary technology suppliers:Microsoft, IBM and SAP Significant strategic technology deals been struck in the last 12 months:Big deal with SCC Strategic aim of the CIO and IT operations for the next financial year: Increase innovation and manage risk Technologies considered by the leader to offer their organisation potential:Cloud Future transformation and technology vision for the organisation:  Massively, overhauled social care sector with a new state of the art system. Also increasing the amount of social media they use.