§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will list those companies that 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;
(2) how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing 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. EggarFor reasons of commercial confidentiality, details of individual contracts cannot be given. However, total annual expenditure for financial years 1984 to 1987, and companies to which contracts have been awarded have been:
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Total expenditure £ Financial year 1984–85 249,037 Her Majesty's Stationery Office City Information Systems Financial year 1985–86 262,101 Her Majesty's Stationery Office AT Computer World
Total expenditure £ Wordnet International Ol Computers Financial year 1986–87 261,267 Her Majesty's Stationery Office Nexel West End Business Machines Ryman ICL Ol Computers Santiki Ltd. Estimated expenditure 1987–88 118,500 Estimated expenditure 1988–89 50,600 The figures include expenditure by both the diplomatic and aid wings of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and by overseas posts. For the latter, there is no central record of companies to which contracts have been awarded.
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) if he will list those companies that 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;
(2) how much his Department has spent on (a) desktop publishing hardware and (h) desktop publishing software in each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for the finanical years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
§ Mr. EggarThe diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office placed one contract through Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1986, at an approximate cost of £29,000. This was the price for the complete integrated system. £380 was spent on hardware update in 1987, and £12,000 to £13,000 is likely to be spent on the expansion and updating of this system in 1988.