§ Mr. Clifton-BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list each major new computer system that(a) his Department, non-departmental bodies and (c) agencies under his responsibility have purchased in the last five years; what was the initial purchase cost and what was the final cost; what was each system's (i) planned and (ii) actual date of commissioning; what major computer systems will be purchased by bodies in categories (a), (b) and in the next financial year; and what is their estimated cost. [27854]
§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTaking "major" to mean at a cost of more than £20,000, the information is as follows:?
DCMS
Collection Management System
- Budget cost: £64,000
- Actual cost: £64,000
- Planned go live date: 8/94
- Actual go live date: 8/94
Library System
- Budget cost: £36,000
- Actual cost: £36,000
- Planned go live date: 3/94
- Actual go live date: 4/94
National Lottery System
- Budget cost: £32,000
- Actual cost: £32,000
104 - Planned go live date: 5/94
- Actual go live date: 5/94
Departmental Financial System
- Budget cost: £295,000
- Actual cost: £260,000
- Planned go live date: 01/10/96
- Actual go live date: 01/11/96
Planned Systems for 1998/99
Purchase Order Processing System
- Budgeted cost: £72,000
- Actual cost: Not yet known
- Planned go live date: 01/04/98
- Actual go live date: On Target
Replacement E-Mail System
- Budgeted cost: Commercial in confidence
- Actual cost: Not yet known
- Planned go live date: 01/07/98
- Actual go live date: On Target
Historic Royal Palaces Agency
Cfacs financial system
- Budgeted cost: £231,000
- Actual cost: Not yet known
- Planned go live date: 01/04/98
- Actual go live date: On Target
Royal Parks Agency
Formation of Agency in 93/94
- Initial system set up cost: £288,596
- Wide Area Data Network
- Actual cost: £23,270
- Actual go live date: May 1995
CARM Computer Aided Resource Management System
- Actual cost: £25,051
- Purchased: September 1995
- Actual go live date: February 1996
Finance and Accounting System
- Actual cost: £33,041
- Purchased: October 1995
- Actual go live date: October 1995
Works Maintenance System
- Actual cost: £66,435
- Planned go live date: September 1996
- Actual go live date: Replaced by below
Works Maintenance System
- Actual cost: £25,304
- Planned go live date: November 1997
- Actual go live date: November 1997
- Upgrade planned: March 1998
- Estimated cost of upgrade: £43,000
Planned Systems for 1998–99
Replacement of RPA's PCs and office suite
- Estimated cost: £200,000
- Dates: not yet planned
New Personnel and Payroll System
105W
- Estimated cost: £30.000
- Dates: not yet planned
New Mapping System
- Estimated cost: £50,000
- Dates: not yet planned
Non Departmental Public Bodies
- This information is not available centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.