HC Deb 06 February 1989 vol 146 c490W
Mr. Barry Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when he expects the Isle of Wight office to be linked to the national computer; and what steps he is taking to speed up computerisation of all benefit offices.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

I recently announced that we are accelerating the implementation of our computerisation programme so that all offices will be linked to the mainframe computer systems by mid-1991. Implementation of the systems in the Isle of Wight office is scheduled for the first half of 1991.