§ Mr. MillerTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all cases since 1987 in which his Department has bought computer capacity from(a) other Departments and (b) the private sector, giving the value of each contract and the name of the private sector contractors. [19454]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonSince 1987, the Scottish Office has not purchased computer capacity from other Departments or the private sector to augment the Department's own computing capability. Payroll and superannuation processing services have been bought from other Departments, and these have included an element of computer processing.
Department Amount £ Her Majesty's Treasury (Chessington Computer Centre—Payroll Services) 1,922,400 Ministry of Defence (Superannuation services) 115,700 In addition, from time to time, the Scottish Office has purchased other services which may have included some computer processing as part of the work undertaken but it is not possible to identify these services except at disproportionate cost.