§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to which firms his Department has awarded contracts for computer hardware for each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
§ Mr. BrookeThe following list contains the names of companies with which the Treasury has spent more than £10,000 on computer hardware, in either of the years 1985–86 or 1986–87, with a broad indication of the amounts involved. For reasons of commercial confidentiality, I am not prepared to give details of individual contracts.
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Amounts spent Between £10,000 and £25,000 Apricot UK Limited Casu Electronics Harrison Comp Serv. Lexi Systems Logica ROCC Computers Winslow Zygal Dynamics plc 1986–87 Between £500,000 and £1,000,000 ICL Between £50,000 and £150,000 Compel plc Systime Limited Between £25,000 and £50,000 British Telecom IBM UK Limited Logica Micronology Limited Between £10,000 and £25,000 Apollo Computers Limited Cooper Armer Limited Harrison Comp Serv Sensory INF Systems Winslow The Treasury also purchased computer hardware worth between £25,000 and £50,000 from HMSO in 1986–87.
§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his Department has spent on (a) computer hardware and (b) computer software for each year since 1984; and what the projected expenditure is for 1987.
§ Mr. BrookeThe figures for the Treasury are:
Financial Year Hardware £
Software £
1985–86 1,942,000 428,000 1986–871 3,000,000 322,000 1 estimate. In 1987–88 the Treasury is planning some ?5 million capital expenditure on computer systems. It is not possible in advance to split this planned expenditure between hardware and software.