§ Mrs. DunwoodyTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 7 March,Official Report, column 3, what is the total cost to date of the DISC network policy project; and what tangible results have been obtained from the expenditure thereon.
§ Mr. NorrisThe DISC network policy project finished in July 1993 when a policy governing the provision of wide-area computer network services was endorsed by the departmental Information Systems Committee. The project to develop the policy cost approximately £117,000—made up of consulting fees and official time. The end product was a policy that defines the framework within which the Department's executive agencies and other units address their individual requirements for data communications and the mechanism by which the Department as a whole achieves economies of scale in meeting these requirements.