§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the equipment leasing arrangements entered into by her Department in each of the last four years; and what the cost to public funds in each case is. [38939]
§ Ms HewittInformation on the hire of DTI's IT equipment and office machinery is not centrally available for the first two years and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. For the two most recent years, central records indicate nearly 500 transactions with the following suppliers, by total value:
Supplier Jan–Dec 2000 Jan–Dec 2001 Hire of IT Equipment1 Bull Finanservices PLC (BT) £5,980 Cable & Wireless Communications £416 International Computers Ltd (ICL) £25,272 £56,571 Pipex Internet Ltd £700 PNE Consulting £201 Sierra Nova Consulting £10,179 Thomas Telford Ltd £2,500 Hire of Office Machinery Action Computer Supplies £668 AFS £849 Anglo Financial Services £3,164 £4,629 Aqua Cool £426 Astron £280 Astron Document Services Ltd £227 Banner Business Supplies Ltd £670 British Telecommunications plc (BT) £2,003 BT Business Accounts £156 BT UK Business Accounts £539 Business Plus £2,031 £618 Cable & Wireless Communications £108 Canford Audio plc £106 Canon (UK) Ltd £5,517 £15,982 Danka UK plc £121,956 £67,303 Danwood Finance Ltd £10,292 £15,781 Danwood Financial Services Ltd £36,294 £17,958 GBC UK £649 GE Capital Equipment Finance Ltd £3,219 £19,042 Hugo International Ltd £1,444 Ikon Capital plc £2,880 Ikon Office Solutions plc £2,994 International Computers Ltd (ICL) £2,100 £10,000 Ionics (UK) Ltd £2,000 LMS Professions Ltd £2,145 Minolta Rentals Ltd £718 £859 Minolta UK Ltd £3,650 £113 Muirhead Systems Ltd £ 552 Newcourt Credit £3,006 Repro Link £644 Servus Facilities Management Ltd £100 Sharp Electronics (UK) Ltd £743 Sharp Rentals Ltd £40,021 £16,841 SMS Imaging £480 The Danwood Group Ltd £ 28,152 £13,766 Vodaphone Corporate Limited 125 Xerox (UK) Ltd £228,653 £275,818 Xerox Finance Ltd £12,748 £19,431 1 The bulk of the Department's IT equipment is not hired directly but is supplied as part of a service contract.