HC Deb 05 March 1987 vol 111 cc698-700W
Dr. Hampson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department 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. Hurd

[pursuant to his reply, 25 February 1987, column 253]: The total number of contracts completed in 1985–86 was 286. Three hundred and seventy six contracts have been placed in 1986–87 to date. Orders in excess of £10,000 have been placed with the following companies:

  • AIT Corporation
  • Apricot
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bell Technical Services
  • Brainstorm Computers
  • British Olivetti
  • British Telecom
  • Burroughs (now known as "Unisys")
  • Cambridge Instruments
  • Camtech
  • Concurrent Computer Corporation
  • Cyfas Systems
  • Dacoll
  • Databasix
  • Data General
  • Digital
  • Doric Computer Systems
  • Ferranti
  • Giffin Factors
  • Harris Systems
  • Hewlett Packard
  • Honeywell
  • IBM
  • ICL
  • JSB
  • KCS
  • Knight
  • Kode
  • Leasco
  • Lexisystem
  • MBS
  • Meiko
  • NCR
  • Newbury Data
  • Perdix
  • Perkin Elmer
  • Picdar
  • Prime
  • Racal Norsk
  • Silicon City
  • Simnetts
  • Sound Techniques
  • Software Sciences
  • Thorn EMI
  • Vector International
  • Vistec Business systems
  • Wang

Dr. Hampson

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what his Department has spent on (a) computer hardware and (b) computer software for each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for 1987.

Mr. Hurd

[pursuant to his reply, 25 February 1987, c. 253]: Home Office expenditure on computer hardware and software since 1984 by calendar year has been as follows:

1985–86 (outturn) 1986–871 (outturn)
£ million £ million
Hardware 2.7 3.6
Software 0.4 0.3
TOTAL 3.1 3.9
1 Estimate.

The breakdown between hardware and software expenditure is approximate since in some cases expenditure on software is not recorded separately. The hardware figures include some projects where hardware and software has been bought as a complete system and some maintenance expenditure where maintenance service has been purchased as part of the initial procurement.

Planned expenditure for 1987–88 on hardware and software is in total just over £8 million.