Mr. O'NeillTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the nature of the outstanding issues that resulted in the special extra-contractual payment that was made to Data Logic Ltd.
§ Mr. Alan ClarkPayment was made in respect of work carried out by Data Logic Ltd. up to the termination of the contract. Issues concerning the extent of conformance of the proposed functional specifications with the army cataloguing authority's requirements brought this work outside the terms of the contract.