§ Mr. Coombsasked the Paymaster General if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
§ Mr. LeeFor reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not possible to answer this question in the detail requested. However the following companies have supplied word processing equipment to the Department of Employment since 1984:
- British Olivetti
- Digital Equipment Company Ltd.
- Rank Xerox
- IBM
- Wang UK
- AES
- ICL
- Amstrad
- Canon
- Information Technology (UK)
- OEM
- Thorn—EMI
- Lexisystems
- Quest International
- Hewlett Packard
- Vistec
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Paymaster General how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing 205W hardware and (b) word processing software in each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
§ Mr. LeeFor those parts of the Department for which figures are readily available, the figures are as follows:
£ 1984–85 226,000 1985–86 474,000 1986–87 662,000 1987–88 795,000 1988–89 710,000
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Paymaster General if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of desktop publishing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
§ Mr. LeeFor reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not possible to answer this question in the detail requested. Since 1984, one contract to the value of £6,000 has been placed.
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Paymaster General how much his Department has spent on (a) desktop publishing hardware and (b) desktop publishing software in each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
§ Mr. LeeThe figures are as follows:
£ 1984–85 Nil 1985–86 Nil 1986–87 6,000 1987–88 20,000 1988–89 Nil