§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of the market testing exercise in connection with his Department's data processing work.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe estimated cost of conducting the market test of the Home Office's administrative information technology services division was £1,565,000. Estimated average annual savings arising from this market test are about £4.8 million or a saving of about 30 per cent. of the cost of comparable IT services under the former arrangements.