HC Deb 02 February 1998 vol 305 c482W
Mrs. Gillan

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if she notifies potential purchasers of obsolete information technology equipment sold by her Department that such equipment may not be millennium compliant. [25652]

Mrs. Roche

[holding answer 27 January 1998]: Information technology equipment is only occasionally sold by the DTI. Purchasers are invariably specialist organisation which will be well aware of the potential non-compliant status of older equipment.

Mrs. Gillan

To ask the President of the Board of Trade when she expects to reply to the question from the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham of 20 January 1998 relating to membership of the Ministerial Group on the year 2000 problem. [27074]

Mrs. Roche

I refer the hon, Member to the answer I gave her on 30 January 1998,Official Report, column 568.