HC Deb 06 July 1994 vol 246 cc238-9W
Mrs. Roe

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will list those central Government information technology outsourcing contracts that have been awarded to private companies since April 1992 and their value, where that company winning the tender has not undertaken previous work for central Government;

(2) if he will list those central Government information technology contracts that have been awarded to private companies as a result of market testing since April 1992, together with their values, the names of the companies to which they were awarded and the names of the companies or organisations that previously provided these services.

Mr. Waldegrave

In the period from April 1992-December 1993, Departments have reported to the efficiency unit that IT support functions worth £291 million were examined under the competing for quality programme.

From Department's reports to the efficiency unit, and contract awards reported in the market testing bulletin in 1994, work in the following areas has been awarded to external contractors.

Department
Ministry of Defence: Operations West IT processing.
Department of the Environment: Planning Inspectorate IT Project management.

Department
Export Credits Guarantee Department: IT operational support.
Department of Health: Operation and redevelopment of the Hospital Episodes Statistics System (HES).
Inland Revenue: IT Services
Department of National Heritage: IT provision.
Northern Ireland Civil Service: Data Preparation.
Operations of Mainframe computer services.
Computer network management.
Ordnance Survey: Digital Conversion of 1/10,000 mapping.
Hardware maintenance.
Mainframe services.
Office of Public Service and Science: Recruitment Assessment Services Computer hardware maintenance.
Office automation software support.
Department of Trade and Industry: Database Maintenance.

Some information on companies winning tenders is in the market testing bulletin, which is in the Library.

For other details of contract values, the companies winning tenders and the organisations previously carrying out the work, I refer the hon. Member to individual Departments.