§ Mr. ChopeTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reason no external assessment has been made of the plans of his Department for millennium compliance. [78464]
§ Ms Hewitt[holding answer 24 March 1999]: It is accepted that year 2000 plans need some form of overall independent assessment. The Treasury use their internal audit team to carry out this function. Internal Audit is independent of the programme and has the necessary skills to oversee the task.
An external IT assessor is, however, engaged in validating the completed compliance work.