§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on what funding provision has been made to accommodate the expenditure needed to resolve the computer millennium problem; and if he expects to have sufficient funding to pay for the work necessary to achieve complete millennium compliance by 1 January 2000.[13564]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 4 November 1997]Within the Treasury, most of the required compliance can be achieved by upgrading proprietary software or hardware, which would have formed part of the normal development of the department's IT systems. Costs will largely be related to time spent by staff testing their systems. Any costs associated with this work will be met from within existing plans.
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