§ Mr. MillerTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all cases since 1987 where his Department has bought computer capacity from(a) other Departments and (b) the private sector, giving the value of each contract and the name of the private sector contractors. [19460]
§ Mr. ArbuthnotNo central record is held of the extent to which computer capacity might have been brought from other Departments. Computer capacity has been 327W bought from many private sector sources, but again no central record is held. In both cases, information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.