§ Mr. HoonTo ask the Attorney-General (1) how many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems; [5527]
(2) how many separate computer programs his Department operates. [5526]
§ The Attorney-GeneralThere is no universal definition of what constitutes a computer program. However, the Departments and agencies for which I am responsible operate in total some 70 major software systems, plus a number of smaller systems.
Those Departments and agencies use a number of proprietary software packages and, for these, information on the number of programs or lines of source code is known only to the suppliers.
My Departments and agencies are carrying out an examination of their software as part of their strategy for dealing with the year 2000 date change issue.