§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the cost(a) to the Treasury and (b) to public expenditure throughout Government of making the adaptations to computer programmes required by the change to the year 2000. [3540]
§ Mr. DarlingThe Treasury and other Government departments are producing, by October 1997, fully costed plans for undertaking the work needed.
The cost of the work will be met from within the published departmental expenditure plans for 1997–98 and 1998–99.