HC Deb 10 February 1998 vol 306 cc103-5W
Mr. Clifton-Brown

To 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 Clarke

Taking "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
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  • 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

  • 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.