§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Work arid Pensions if he will list the IT Projects being undertaken by his Department; and which companies have been awarded the contracts. [46317]
§ Mr. Nicholas Brown[holding reply 26 March 2002]: Our main IT suppliers are:
EDS——for our Employment Service modernisation programme;Affinity, (led by EDS with IBM UK, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AT Kearney)——for our Department for Work and Pensions modernisation programme (major contracts include Child Support Reform, Strategic Outsourcing and some elements of the Department's Early Office Infrastructure programme);Arcway, (led by BT Syntegra with Bill Information Systems and Schlumberger Sema)——for the new network needed to support our modernisation programme.