HC Deb 11 January 1978 vol 941 cc754-5W
Mr. Warren

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to which organisations or individuals outside the Government service his Department has issued data from or about the Treasury's United Kingdom economic model.

Mr. Denzil Davies

Licence agreements have been concluded with five commercial computer bureaux and they have copies of the computer programmes, documentation and historical data—the forward data needed to produce a forecast with the model has to be provided by the user—necessary for operating the Treasury model. Any member of the public using the model at one of these bureaux will have access to the documentation and data. The model is similarly available at the University Computer Centres of London, Edinburgh and Manchester. The commercial bureaux are:

  • Interactive Data Corporation Ltd
  • London United Computing Services Ltd
  • Service in Informatics and Analysis Ltd
  • SCICON Computer Services Ltd
  • University Computing Company Ltd.

A technical manual describing the model is available on application from the Treasury at a cost of £1.50.