§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the IT projects currently undertaken in his Department; and if he will state the(a) expected completion date and (b) cost of each project. [151505]
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 26 February 2001]: A list of the major IT projects costing most than £100,000 and undertaken in the current year is shown in the table, together with the requested supplementary information. This includes a number of projects for the monitoring and control of animal diseases, as well as on-going projects for the payment of a number of common agricultural policy schemes which need annual amendment to take account of changes agreed by the EU. Costs relating to maintenance of existing systems and services are excluded.
Major IT projects are approved (or rejected) on the basis of business eases indicating the benefits to the Department to be delivered from the expenditure, and are managed by formal project boards chaired by senior staff.
477WTo ensure probity and value for money, procurements are undertaken in compliance with EC public procurement rules, UK Government domestic procurement policy and best practice guidance to ensure probity and value for money, government accounting rules and National Audit
IT project End date Total State Veterinary Service network/TB implementation 1— 5,306,704 Replacement for current Vet Net systems—pilot projects July 2001 150,000 Cattle Ear Tag Allocation System April 2001 200,000 Geographical Information Systems for Animal Disease Control April 2001 542,133 British Cattle Movement Service Strategic Enhancements and Integration Testing of IT System 1— 3,204,727 Web Access to Cattle Tracing System May 2001 1,759,153 Monitoring of Animal Movements within UK and EC 1— 237,965 Pet Travel Scheme August 2000 250,000 GB Cattle Herd Registration Development November 2000 1,367,000 Scrapie Control System July 2001 1,908,223 Food Survey System replacement March 2002 1,329,020 Grants and Subsidies Management System for Common Agricultural Policy Payments 1— 2,823,476 Combined Bovine Risk Assessment Scheme December 2001 2,151,500 Beef Extensification Premium Scheme May 2001 1,339,000 New Common Agricultural Policy Support Systems 1— 15,846,854 Cattle Slaughter Premium Scheme 1— 1,767,500 Agenda 2000 1— 1,378,650 Hill Farmers Allowance May 2001 1,838,501 England Rural Development Programme February 2003 2,135,375 Sea Fish Management Systems 1— 394,005 Fisheries Satellite Surveillance July 2003 322,541 Integration of Existing Building and Estate Management Databases 1— 1,553,085 Upgrade to Financial Systems and reporting tools 1— 10,878,802 E-Commerce December 2001 1,867,334 Replacement Office/Corporate Systems December 2001 9,827,835 Central Science Laboratories (CSL): Integrated Business Information System October 2001 500,000 CSL:Upgrade to Hardware to run new Office Systems May 2001 250,000 Centre for Environmental, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS): Laboratory Information Management Systems March 2003 350,000 CEFAS: Biological Sampling System March 2003 120,000 Farming and Rural Conservation Agency (FRCA): Invest to Save Interdepartmental project (MAGIC) Geographical Information System April 2002 462,000 FRCA: Cartography Tool Kit April 2003 930,000 FRCA: basic mapping for administration of agri-environment schemes October 2001 292,000 Intervention Board (IB): Oracle Multi Org for Intervention Board February 2001 252,000 IB: Block Guarantee Scheme System Redevelopment April 2001 198,000 IB: Audit Logging December 2001 187,548 IB: Data Integration March 2001 287,833 IB: Brussels Matrix March 2001 429,018 IB: Modulation June 2001 350,000 IB: Over Thirty Month Scheme System Extension July 2001 343,214 IB: Slaughter Premium Scheme System Development June 2001 735,428 IB: Porting PI Open Systems to Universe December 2001 1,150,000 1 Annual revision required
§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the IT projects his Department plans to undertake in the next year; and if he will state in each case the(a) expected date of commencement and completion and (b) cost. [151469]
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Project costs (£) Start date End date Orthophotos to support Integrated Administration and Control Systems Geographical Information Systems in Agricultural Payments' Agency 250,000 April 2001 March 2002 Redevelopment of Common Agricultural Policy Payment Schemes 47,000,000 April 2001 March 2004 Intervention Board (IB): Oracle Release 1li 200,000 May 2001 July 2002 IB: Oracle Personnel System Update 210,000 October 2001 March 2002 Office requirements. MAFF is also implementing the relevant recommendations of the report "Successful IT—Modernising Government in Action", published in May, 2000.
§ Ms Quin[holding answer 26 February 2001]: A list of the new IT projects costing more than £100,000 and expected to start in 2001–02 is shown, with the requested supplementary information. Costs relating to maintenance of existing systems and services are excluded.