HC Deb 21 July 1988 vol 137 cc707-9W
Mr. Mullin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the cost to Her Majesty's Customs and Excise of employing management or computer consultants for each year from 1983 to 1987.

Mr. Lilley

The cost of consultancies in Customs and Excise from 1982–83 to 1987–88 is as follows:

£ Year
1982–83 nil
1983–84 18,782
1984–85 190,711
1985–86 1,337,042
1986–87 2,039,839
1987–88 1,443,735

Firm Subject of assignment
Simpact Systems (now Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems (LBMS, Ltd.) Study on the use of Project Organisation Management and Technique (PROMPT) methodology in Government.
Data Dictionary Systems Ltd. Structured Systems Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM) interface documentation for SDM and Quickbuild.
PE Consulting Services Ltd. Consultancy Support for CCTA's Programming and Data Management Branch.
Scientific & Business Systems Ltd. Consultancy support for Systems Engineering Branch (2 contracts).
VNG Professional Services Consultancy support for Systems Engineering Branch.
Data Dictionary Systems Ltd. Study of interface between SSADM and Application Generators.
Learmonth Burchett Management Systems Ltd. Study of interface between SSADM and Government turnkey procedures.
The Systems Training Co. Development of a transputer-based graphic system for Multi-User Systems Tool (MUST).
Model Systems Ltd. Consultancy support for SSADM.
Model Systems Ltd. Provision of ad hoc consultancy support to users of SSADM.
Lorien Computer Services Consultancy support for Programming and Data Management Branch.
University of Edinburgh Provision of system software consultant.
Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems Ltd. Monitoring of take-up of SSADM-ad hoc project reviews.
Prolog System Ltd. System designers for the computer based aids section.
BIS Applied Systems Ltd. Automated software tool for risk management methodology.
Prolog Systems Ltd. Consultancy to advise departments on the use of call information loggers.
EOSYS Ltd. Consultancy project to plan and implement Out of Area Lines on the Government Telecommunications Network (GTN).
Ashpier Ltd. Communications consultant in the telecommunications Group.
Logica UK Ltd. Inter-departmental Electronic Mail (IDEM) project (Stage III).
Admiral Computing Group Ltd. IDEM—Quality Assessor.
British Telecommunications plc Project to model the GTN.
British Telecommunications plc Development of a Network Management System.
RPG Sheldrake Consultancy support for the telecommunications Group.
PA Consulting Services Ltd. Study of use of GTN for non-voice requirements.
Castell Verifications of electronically-reproduced data in Court: (VERDICT).
Rollstest Ltd. Consultancy support for Data Communications Branch.
Yale Data Computer Consultants Provision of 2 systems consultants.
Touche Ross Management Consultants Provision of systems consultant.
Amtec Consulting Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
Hoskyns Group Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
DE Barnard Systems Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
System Assurance Ltd. Provision of systems consultant.
Christine Howarth Ltd. Development of handbook—A Role for Users in System Design and Development.
Insight International Ltd. Development of User Friendly Option for optic ethernet model
Prolog System Ltd. Benchmark for Performance & Test Harness (PATH) Development
University of Salford Conversion of CCTA Fortran programs
J. Westgate Consultants Ltd. Consultancy support for Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) (2 contracts)

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract extant in Her Majesty's Customs and Excise as at 1 January 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.

Mr. Lilley

The following consultancies with Customs and Excise were extant on 1 January 1987:

  • BIS Applied Systems Ltd—Customs systems testing strategy.
  • CCTA—VAT computer replacement study.
  • Computer Search and Selection—Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) computer analysis.
  • ICL—CHIEF analysis and programming.
  • LBMS—SSADM analysis and programming.
  • Peat Marwick McClintock—Development of Customs accounting system Touche Ross—Customs project advice.

Mr. Mullin

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract extant in the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency as at 1 January 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.

Mr. Brooke

The following management or computer consultancy contracts were extant in the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) at 1 January 1987:

Firm Subject of assignment
Performance Systems Incorporated Consultancy support for development of automatic modelling for Virtual Machine Environment (VME) system
Grafton Ltd. Developing a Customer Information Control System (CICS)/ADABAS version of PATH
Carnell Computer Technology Support and development of VME Government Accounting Package
R. M. O'Connor Study of IT standards in Government procurement
University of Edinburgh CCTA funded post at Centre for Applications Software and Technology to support VME version of SIR/Database Management System (DBMS)
Prolog Systems Ltd. Consultancy to advise departments on the use of call information loggers.
EOSYS Ltd. Consultancy project to plan and implement Out of Area Lines on the Government Telecommunications Network (GTN).
Ashpier Ltd. Communications consultant in the telecommunications Group.
Logica UK Ltd. Inter-departmental Electronic Mail (IDEM) project (Stage III).
Admiral Computing Group Ltd. IDEM—Quality Assessor.
British Telecommunications plc Project to model the GTN.
British Telecommunications plc Development of a Network Management System.
RPG Sheldrake Consultancy support for the telecommunications Group.
PA Consulting Services Ltd. Study of use of GTN for non-voice requirements.
Castell Verifications of electronically-reproduced data in Court (VERDICT).
Rollstest Ltd. Consultancy support for Data Communications Branch.
Yale Data Computer Consultants Provision of 2 systems consultants.
Touche Ross Management Consultants Provision of systems consultant.
Amtec Consulting Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
Hoskyns Group Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
DE Barnard Systems Ltd. Provision of 2 systems consultants.
System Assurance Ltd. Provision of systems consultant.
Christine Howarth Ltd. Development of handbook—A Role for Users in System Design and Development.
Insight International Ltd. Development of User Friendly Option for optic ethernet model
Prolog System Ltd. Benchmark for Performance & Test Harness (PATH) Development
University of Salford Conversion of CCTA Fortran programms
J. Westgate Consultants Ltd. Consultancy support for Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) (2 contracts)
Performance systems Incorporated Consultancy support for development of automatic modelling for Virtual Machine Environment (VME) system
Grafton Ltd. Developing a Customer Information Control System (CICS)/ADABAS version of PATH
Carnell Computer Technology Support and development of VME Government Accounting Package
R. M. O'Connor Study of IT standards in Government procurement
University of Edinburgh CCTA funded post at Centre for Applications Software and Technology to support VME version of SIR/Database Management System (DBMS)