§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will estimate the cost to her Department of(a) consultants and (b) contractors engaged to address millennium computer compliance problems; and if she will list them. [32414]
§ Clare ShortThe cost of the millennium compliance for the main corporate systems was included in the move to general resource accounting. A specific consultancy cost for millennium compliance cannot be attributed. We have engaged Expertech Systems Ltd at a cost of £18,000 to convert non-compliant spreadsheets. A specification for further work expected to cost around £55,000 has also been drawn up. A company has not yet been selected for this additional work.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when she last met the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to discuss her Department's progress towards millennium compliance. [32281]
§ Clare ShortI have not discussed the millennium compliance of my Department with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many of those working within her Department on millennium compliance issues have(a) given notice of their intention to leave or (b) left her Department in the last six months. [32282]
§ Clare ShortNone of my officials working on the millennium compliance issues has given notice of their intention to leave nor have any left the Department in the last six months.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when all testing on millennium compliance will be completed within her Department. [32413]
§ Clare ShortWe expect testing for millennium compliance to be completed by end-November 1998.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when her Department will be fully millennium compliant. [32415]
§ Clare ShortMy Department will be millennium compliant by the end of 1998.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what will be the cost of millennium compliance to the Commonwealth Development Corporation. [32276]
§ Clare ShortThe incremental costs of compliance for the Commonwealth Development Corporation are very small and cannot be disentangled from the normal process of replacing hardware and software packages which would have needed to happen in any case.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when she last met a Treasury Minister to discuss the costs of millennium compliance in her Department. [32284]
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§ Clare ShortI have not discussed the millennium compliance of my Department with a Treasury Minister.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when all testing on Year 2000 compliance will be completed within the Commonwealth Development Corporation. [32274]
§ Clare ShortThe Commonwealth Development Corporation expect testing for millennium compliance to be completed by end-November 1998.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development when the Commonwealth Development Corporation will be fully millennium compliant. [32275]
§ Clare ShortThe Commonwealth Development Corporation will be millennium compliant by the end of 1998.
§ Sir Alastair GoodladTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development from which budgetary sub-head the costs of millennium compliance will be met by her Department. [32283]
§ Clare ShortThe Department for International Development will meet millennium costs from sub-head CO2 (Running costs, capital).