HC Deb 12 July 1995 vol 263 cc588-9W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Attorney-General which firms of consultants employed by his Department over the last year have been paid more than £1,000 per day. [33871]

The Attorney-General

The information requested is not recorded centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Attorney-General how much his Department and its agencies have spent on computer consultancy in each of the last five years; and what is the expected expenditure over the next five years. [33851]

The Attorney-General

The expenditure over the past five years for the Departments for which I am responsible is given in the following table:

Expenditure in £000
Year Treasury Solicitor's Department Crown Prosecution Service Serious Fraud Office Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers
1990–91 not known not known 114.5 0
1991–92 22 428 87.8 0
1992–93 62 487 99.9 0
1993–94 14.2 449 153.1 0
1994–95 6.4 369 1213.7 0
1 Unaudited.

Approximate expected expenditure for the next five years, at current prices, is as follows:

Expenditure in £000
Year Treasury Solicitor's Department Crown Prosecution Service Serious Fraud Office Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers
1995–96 40 204 193.5 0
1996–971 30 2200 2 200 0
1 and each subsequent year
2 not more than

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Attorney-General which firms have won computer consultancy contracts from his Department and its agencies over the last five years; and what is the number of contracts per firm. [33898]

The Attorney-General

The Departments for which I am responsible have entered into computer consultancy contracts with the following companies over the last five years —1990–91 to 1994–95. The figures in brackets give the number of contracts awarded to each company.

  • Treasury Solicitor's Department
  • Axsis Consultants Ltd. (2)
  • CCTA (6)
  • Exact Profiles Ltd (1)
  • Telecom Capita (1)
  • Triad Special Systems Ltd. (2)
  • Brian D Yates (1)
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • Amtec Consulting (1)
  • The Art of Management Ltd. (1)
  • Axsis Consultants Ltd. (3)
  • Bull Information Systems Ltd. (1)
  • Comshare Ltd. (1)
  • Harvard Associates Ltd. (2)
  • Hoskyns Group plc (1)
  • Hunterskil Ltd. (2)
  • Infact Ltd. (4)
  • Integrated Project Support (2)
  • ISIS Computer Services (1)
  • Mouncey and Partners (1)
  • Olivetti UK Ltd. (1)
  • Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. (1)
  • Quadratron Systems UK Ltd. (1)
  • Relational Designers Ltd. (1)
  • SCOLL (1)
  • Sema Group Systems Ltd. (1)
  • Sequelogic Ltd. (4)
  • Simdell Office Systems Ltd. (1)
  • Verity (1)
  • VNG Nationwide Ltd. (1)
  • Yale Consulting (2)
  • Serious Fraud Office
  • (ACT) Network SI Group Ltd. (2)
  • Admiral Management Services Ltd. (1)
  • Amtec Consulting (2)
  • Digitus Ltd. (1)
  • Ernst and Young (1)
  • Hedra Ltd (2)
  • Hoskyns Group plc (2)
  • Insight Consulting (2)
  • LogicaUK Ltd. (l)
  • Oracle Corporation UK Ltd. (1)
  • Rand Information Systems Ltd. (1)
  • Secure Information Systems Ltd. (1)
  • SHL Systemhouse Inc (2)
  • Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers
  • None.