HC Deb 30 March 1998 vol 309 cc383-4W
Mr. Gray

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what percentage of businesses her Department anticipates will fail to be millennium compliant by 2000; and what assessment she has made of the impact of single currency demands on programmers on millennium compliance. [27530]

Mrs. Beckett

[holding answer 5 March 1998]: Action 2000 aims to ensure that all businesses realise the need to take action on millennium compliance in time. Enterprises working towards millennium compliance will, of course, need to take account of other information technology developments, including any relating to the launch of the single currency. The nature and extent of other work will vary very significantly between businesses and will depend on decisions taken by those businesses.