§ Mr. Gordon MarsdenTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the outsourcing of the Information Technology Services Agency will be subject to precontract review by the Treasury PFI Taskforce. [105195]
§ Mr. Andrew SmithYes. The outsourcing of the Information Technology Services Agency is a part of the ACCORD PFI project with which the Treasury Taskforce is closely involved, and it will be subject to a pre-contract review which will be carried out by the Taskforce in association with the McCartney Committee which has been set up to examine the lessons that can be learnt from past Government IT projects and to give guidance on the conduct of future projects.