HC Deb 11 January 1999 vol 323 c62W
19. Mr. Caplin

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to modernise his Department's benefit computer systems. [63208]

Mr. Timms

As part of our transformation programme, we are already working closely with the private sector in designing and developing the next generation of computer systems fit to support the delivery of a modernised Welfare State.