§ Mr. ToddTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list each of the functions relating to the payroll for which his Department is responsible, indicating the management systems purchased, all subcontractors involved in the work, co-operative arrangements with 233W other Departments and the costs of the systems and processes in the last year for which figures are available. [10737]
§ Mr. Ron DaviesIn 1996–97, the last year for which figures are available, the Department's pay section and finance division collated and processed payments in respect of its own staff and the staff of the office of Her Majesty's chief inspectorate of schools in Wales, including basic pay, tax and other deductions, overtime, and so on.
Staff employed on a casual basis and a number of miscellaneous payments for services were paid by the finance division, all other staff were paid by the Chessington Computer Services Ltd., via the SPIRE system—standard payroll input and retrieval system.
The total cost of providing this service in 1996–97 was £269,000.