§ Mr. IngramTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the cost effects of the millennium date change on the computer systems operated by her Department. [2617]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe Department has made an initial assessment of 5,000 days effort for the 1997–98 financial year. A project has been set up to identify all the Department's computer systems which will be impacted by the millennium date change. This projet will provide detailed costings covering all the work needed up to the millennium and take forward those changes where they are cost justified.