§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total amount spent by his Department in 1989 on management and computer consultancy contracts, excluding hardware and software purchases; if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by his Department in 1989, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment; and what is the total amount that his Department has budgeted to spend in the current year.
§ Mrs. RumboldThis Department spent £685,000 on computer and management consultancies in the 1989–90 financial year and has budgeted for £540,000 for 1990–91. Contracts awarded in 1989–90 were as follows:
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- Peat Marwick McLintock—Financial management survey of SERC
- Peat Marwick McLintock—Student loans
- Price Waterhouse—Student loans
- PAS Limited—Parent awareness survey
- Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte—Financial computer system consultancy
- Peat Marwick McLintock—Financial computer system consultancy
- SCOLL—IT Specialist productivity
- FI Group—Grants payments system
- BIS—CRAMM Reviews
- Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte—Network security
- LBMS—INGRES
- Digitus—Desk Top Publishing
- Fernhart—Service Desk
- Butler Cox—Further Education Statistical Records
- BIS—Telecommunications Darlington
- Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte—Mainframe replacement
- Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte—Financial system testing
- ICL—CRIS-F Report writing
- CMG—Data modelling
- BIS—Data collection and electronic data interchange