§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many outsourced IT contracts have been signed by his Department in each year since 1997; how much each of these contracts is worth; with whom they are signed; how many have been renegotiated; how many are still in place; and if he will make a statement. [126201]
§ Yvette CooperThe Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) was created in May 2002. Since 1997, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and its central departmental predecessors (DTLR and DETR) signed two IT contracts, totalling £10.7 million. Of these, one is a Department for Transport (DfT) contract providing joint services to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the other is the sole responsibility of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. These contracts were let with
LogicaCMG for the provision of the corporate payroll service for DfT and ODPMFujitsu for the provision of IT infrastructure and desktop services for the Government Office Network.Both contracts are still in place and one has been renegotiated.