§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total amount spent by the Training Commission in 1989 on management and computer consultancy contracts, excluding hardware and software purchases; if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by the Training Commission in 1989, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment; and what is the total amount that the Training Commission has budgeted to spend in the current year.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 28 March 1990]; The Training Agency estimate, that expenditure in the financial 262W year 1989–90 will be £3.4 million on management and computer consultancy contracts, excluding hardware and software purchases. No management consultancy contracts were awarded during 1989–90. The total budget for 1990–91 has not yet been agreed. The list of computer consultancy contracts awarded during the financial year 1989–90 is as follows:
Consultants and Subject of Assignment
Arthur Young—Consultant to review a payment system.MFT Computer Systems—Amendments to the file registry System.RTI—Consultants to establish the environment within the field system.Computer People North—SSADM System Analyst.Telfast Computer Service—Analyst for development work.Softel—Oracle ProjectPA—Head office configuration technical study.Arthur Young—A consultant to assist in developing the accounting structure of training and enterprise councils.PA—To examine implications of procuring terminals and keyboards capable of supporting X-Windows.AMP Systems Ltd.—Support for small firms.D. England—Assistance with the Cimetrics package.BIS Applied Systems—Consultancy support for the local area network project.RTI—Consultancy to resolve problems when trying to run ingres on NCR computer.Yale Data—Technical assurance co-ordinator.CCTA—Financial and management accounting post-implementation review.Easams Ltd.—Ingres application developers for the field system.RTI—Training access point scoping study.Yale Data Management Consultants—A consultant to assist the stage manager.Relational Technology—Supply of Ingres training.Ernst and Whinney—Consultant to advise on the field system and training and enterprise councils.Relational Technology—Assisting with the setting up of accounts, directories etc.CSL—Review of system methodology.Price Waterhouse—Ingres developers/testing.Yale Data—Ingres developers/testers.SEMA Group—Ingres support.Telfast Computing—Ingres application developer with accountancy experience.CCTA—Service agreement hardware/software.CCTA—Migration study X25 1980 to X25 1984.Level 7—Network names and addressing.CCTA—Telecommunications section—study to look into staffing needs.FM—Provide software support to regional and HQ systems.CCTA—CCTA support agreement.MFT—Contract programmer (`C') for 4 weeks.RTI—Consultant to assist in setting up Ingres database.Yale Data—Ingres application developer (4 weeks).Scientific Business Systems—Applications developers to work on the record trainee system.PA—Assistance with the Mascot operational requirement.Hoskyns Group—Project management for privatisation of the Skills Training Agency.Meridan Systems Management Ltd.—Online access to a Polis database.Yale Data Management—Applications developer to help on trainees volume system.Skills Training Agency—Training in Q-office development.RTI—Application developers to assist with development work.263WLogica—Consultants to assist in system testing.RI—To assist with benchmarking.Coopers and Lybrand—Support to project manager in the development of plans and progress measurement tools to monitor the status of the training and enterprise councils implementation project.SBS—Ingress application developer.The Instruction Set—Development of system standards.Ernst and Young—Design review.Yale—Assistance with system testing.SBS—Applications developers.RTI—Application developer.Digitus Applications developers.LBMS—System Testing.Yale Data—Applications developers.Yale—System testing.Easams—Applications developer.Yale Data—Unix and Ingres support for field systems.RTI—Ingress development.System Reliability—Application software for call logger.Ernst and Young—To advise training agency on support to training and enterprise councils after April 90.Yale Data Management—Systems analyst record trainee volumes.Oscar Communications—Marketing.Novatek—Manuals.Digital—Linking training and enterprise Councils to the network.NCC—Communications consultancy.The Instruction Set—Consultant to discuss report on system management.Computer Search and Select—Analyst/developer.Marketing Perspective—Marketing the field system.Ingres—Ingres training.Yale Data—Analyst/developer.Lorien—Analyst/developer.Marketing Perspective—Account manager training.P-E International—Analyst/developer.