§ Sir Brandon Rhys Williamsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the policy of Her Majesty's Government on computerisation of payas-you-earn; and what progress has been made so far.
§ Mr. Ridley:The Chancellor of the Exchequer annouced on 10 November 1980 that the Government had decided to go ahead with plans to computerise pay as you earn. Staff in nearly 600 offices across the country will be linked through visual display terminals on their desks to taxpayer records which will be held on one of a number of computer configurations located in 12 regional processing centres. One computer centre, at Telford in Shropshire, has already been built and the new system is being developed there. So far the project is running according to the original schedule:
Detailed design and development: until July 1983.User acceptance testing: August 1983 to December 1983.Progressive implementation and evaluation of the system in 14 pilot offices: January to December 1984.Delivery and acceptance of balance of first region
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South Western Minerals (Taunton) Mining subsidence reports 1 October 1975 to 31 March 1982 Cornwall Devon Somerset Avon Gloucester Dorset Wiltshire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Annual Total 1 October 1975 to 31 March 1976 23 1 7 321 63 1 1 — 417 1 April 1976 to 31 March 1977 65 7 26 825 208 — 1 2 1,134 1 April 1977 to 31 March 1978 109 20 12 682 148 — 7 4 982 1 April 1978 to 31 March 1979 152 7 16 895 307 1 6 7 1,391 1 April 1979 to 31 March 1980 186 4 47 1,281 246 1 8 1 1,774 1 April 1980 to 31 March 1981 839 9 46 1,127 327 14 44 — 2,406 1 April 1981 to 31 March 1982 486 6 39 776 145 — 4 5 1,461 County Total 1,860 54 193 5,907 1,444 17 71 19 — Grand Total 9,565
equipment: January to March 1985.Implementation in remaining 11 regions: April 1985 to end 1987.