§ Mr. MullinTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give the cost to his Department of employing management or computer consultants for each year from 1983 to 1987.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe total cost to all Northern Ireland Departments is as follows:
Financial Year £ 1983–84 3,309,283 1984–85 3,841,035 1985–86 4,006,116 1986–87 5,125,405
§ Mr. MullinTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract extant in his Department as at 1 January 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.
§ Mr. Ian StewartThe following management and computer consultancy contracts were extant at 1 January 1987:
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Firms Subject of assignment Barnard Systems DOE land registry BIS-IPSE DANI animal health NIO prison officers payroll Beecom Management Consultants Ltd. To provide work study staff under an agency agreement Finance for managers consultancy service for client company Beecom (NI) Ltd. II appreciation training DOE roads service integrated systems DOE water service integrated systems Belfast Information Technology Service "Hands On" IT sessions British Telecom Government network Business Information Systems-Beecom Management and finance accounting systems, IT sessions Cap Industry Ltd. To maintain the computerised rates assessment and collection system in NI CCTA DFP methodology support DFP strategy development DOE strategy study Centre House Management Financial appraisal for IDB
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Firms Subject of assignment CIPFA Computer Services Ltd. Implementation of IT strategy H. Cloutt Associates VME technical consultancy Computer Learning Centre "Hands On" IT sessions Computing Consultancy and Services Report on software, staff availability and demand Elsdon Computer Services Ltd. (London) Development of payroll system under VME (virtual machine environment) Ernst and Whinney Review on internal audit in Northern Ireland Civil Service Ewbank Preece Feasibility study Gilpin Black Associates Objective setting exercise Goldblatt Management Consultancy Carpet sector Review Financial appraisals for IDB Marketing appraisals for IDB Gresham Computer Personnel Southampton VME operations consultancy P. Hyde IT "The Human Dimension" Industrial Training Service Ltd. Development of Youth Training Programme (YTP) workscheme Enterprise training for YTP trainers Industrial Training Services Provide specialist advice and input to IDB's executive development programme Johnson Andrews & Co. Sales development training programme Learmouth Burchett Management Systems DANI works service Lindsay Marketing Services Marketing appraisal for IDB Management Development Services (NI) Ltd Consulting support service to participants in the enterprise allowance scheme Market Research NI Market appraisal for IDB McCormick Tracey & Mullarbey Meat plant survey McFarland Edmund International investment and market research Market appraisal for IDB Mclver Jenkins Associates Ltd. Marketing advice NI Council on Alcohol Alcohol awareness Coopers and Lybrand Associates The development and implementation of a departmental information technology strategy for social security benefit payments Marketing appraisals for IDB Financial appraisals for IDB To carry out a survey of standard capital grants scheme claimants Energy consultants—to advise on the technical and economic aspects of private sector electricity generation and to evaluate competing private and public sector proposals for the next tranche of generating capacity required in Northern Ireland To assist the Department to supervise and monitor the affairs of the Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company and the three subsidiary transport operating companies Enabling study for Northern Ireland Prison Department David Rigby Associates Linen task force update Marketing appraisal for IDB Deloitte Haskins and Financial appraisals for IDB Sells To devise a system to meet the management, accounting and information needs of the Department's works service
Firms Subject of assignment Denton Hall Burgin and Warrens To negotiate and draft contractural arrangements with private sector electricity generators for the generation and sale of electricity to Northern Ireland Electricity PA Management Consultants Organisational change in DED Pactel Evaluation of benefits of Belfast London information system Peat Marwick Financial appraisal for IDB PE Consultancy Services Marketing appraisal for IDB Price Waterhouse Assistance with statutory audits Investment appraisal Professional qualification in internal audit Toolmaking requirements for a tooling facility for injection moulding; Financial appraisals for IDB Purchasing Index (UK) Ltd. Road vehicle-mobile plant purchasing and management in Department of Agriculture(Northern Ireland) QUB (Department of Agriculture) Cheese survey Queen's University Basic book-keeping Belfast Investment appraisal Professional qualification on internal audit N. M. Rothschild and Sons Ltd. Financial consultants—to advise on the viability of the financial structure underlying private sector electricity generating proposals Rowena Mills Associates Marketing appraisal for IDB Software Ireland DFP valuation and lands office DED companies registry DFP methodology support IT awareness Users role in micro-computers Software Ireland and Beecom IT awareness programme (users role in system development) Software Ireland Ltd. Computerisation of valuation and lands office Touche Ross Assessment of audit needs, development of audit processes and assistance with computer audit, both for departmental internal audit and the statutory audit function Touche Ross Management Monitoring Harland and Wolff on behalf of DED Consultants To monitor Short Bros plc University of Ulster Investment appraisal Warner International Marketing appraisal for IDB