HC Deb 08 May 1996 vol 277 c168W
Mr. Alex Carlile

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the police information technology organisation will become operable; what plans he has to contract it out; and if he will make a statement. [27928]

Mr. Maclean

[holding answer 7 May 1996]I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton and Cheam (Lady Olga Maitland) on 1 April at column60. There are no plans to contract out the police information technology organisation, although many of the information technology services it provides will continue to be delivered under contract by private sector suppliers.

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