§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 3 November 1998,Official Report, columns 454–45, if he will list the companies which submitted bids for disposal of (a) computers, (b) CD-Roms, (c) office equipment and (d) boardroom furniture, indicating which bids were accepted for each of the above categories of equipment after the demise of Teesside Development Corporation. [58675]
§ Mr. MealeI understand that a large number of firms were approached in connection with the disposal of TDC's furniture and equipment. Three expressed interest and two definite bids were subsequently received, the higher of which was accepted. For reasons of commercial confidentiality, the names of these firms cannot be divulged.
115WI further understand that, in subsequent negotiations, it was agreed that the bulk of TDC's computers would also be sold to this firm. The remainder of the computers and some other furniture were made available to the remaining staff of the Corporation for sums which exceeded the relevant "benchmark" figures submitted by an office equipment company.
§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 3 November 1998,Official Report, column 454, if he will list those individuals who have kept a record of information which was previously stored on (a) CD-Roms or disks and (b) on paper after the demise of Teesside Development Corporation. [58779]
§ Mr. MealeI understand that, upon its dissolution at the end of June 1998, the TDC bequeathed some 600 boxes of files to the Commission for the New Towns, as the residuary body. The CNT is currently working on cataloguing the information in these boxes before putting them away for long-term storage.