HC Deb 13 July 1988 vol 137 cc226-7W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the cost to the Property Services Agency of employing management or computer consultants for each year from 1983 to 1987.

Mr. Ridley

Expenditure by the Property Services Agency on management or computer consultants for the financial years 1983–84 to 1987–88 was:

Cost
£
1983–84 147,927
1984–85 152,721
1985–86 697,767
1986–87 2,322,106
1987–88 4,623,999

The figures quoted are for financial years as the breakdown by calendar year is not readily available and could be provided only at the expense of considerable staff effort. The figures for 1983–84 are for computer consulting only.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the cost to his Department of employing management or computer consultants for each year from 1983 to 1987.

Mr. Ridley

Following is the information for DOE(C)

£ million
1983–84 3.9
1984–85 3.7
1985–86 2.5
1986–87 3.6
1987–88 4.6

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract extant in the Property Services Agency as at 1 January 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.

Mr. Ridley

The following consultancy contracts were extant in the Property Services Agency as at 1 January 1987:

Project Consultancy Firm
1. Civil Estate Record Information Systems United Information Services Ltd.
2. Support for Installation of the Interim RHQ Computing Facility Digital Equipment Co. Ltd.
3. Infrastructure—Technical Support PACTEL

Project Consultancy Firm
4. System Support for Staff Allocation Model (SAM) SIA Ltd.
5. Support for VME Transition ICL
6. Support for VME Transition W. S. Atkins Ltd.
7. IT Standards—DITSTAN 1 BIS Applied Systems Ltd.
8. Support to IT Committee Coopers & Lybrand
9. Support for Accountancy Package—LAFIS ICL
10. SSADM Support for Repayments Project ICL
11. Support for Professional Computing Transition Project Ove Arup and Partners
12. Support for PRIME Bureau Service at Croydon Primary Systems Ltd.
13. Oracle Consultancy Support—PSA IMNEW Project Oracle Corporation UK Ltd.
14. IT Standards—DITSTAN II BIS Applied Systems Ltd
15. Support for Project Support Office Coopers & Lybrand
16. Quality Assurance Repayments Re-Write Project Coopers & Lybrand
17. Measured Term Contracts Feasibility Study United Information Services Ltd.
18. Whitgift PABX Project Manager BIS Applied Systems Ltd.
19. DWO PABX Replacement Technical Support BIS Applied Systems Ltd.
20. Hastings PABX Technical Support BIS Applied Systems Ltd.
21. Edinburgh PABX Technical Support BIS Applied Systems Ltd.
Management Consultancy Contracts
22. Commercial Accounts Study Deloitte, Haskins & Sell
23. Evaluation Word Processing Market Dialatron
24. Support for PSA Data Admin. Function PACTEL
25. Directly Employed Labour Management Study MCP Management Consultants
26. Privatisation of TCS Coopers & Lybrand