§ Richard Younger-RossTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the total expenditure of his Department on IT systems and support in each year from May 1997 to date; how many IT contracts have been let in each of those years; of the other main contracting party in each of those contracts,38W how many have been (a) companies whose registered office is in (i) England and Wales, (ii) Scotland and (iii) Northern Ireland and (b) foreign companies; and what are the names of the companies falling within category (a). [33678]
§ Mr. MacShaneThe information is given in the table:
Million Complete financial years Capital Maintenance 1997–98 33.9 10.1 1998–99 35.9 9.7 1999–2000 35.3 8.6 2000–01 23.0 12.0 It would occur disproportionate cost to provide exact figures for all the numbers of contracts let in each of these years.
Of the 13 contracts let by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office since 1997 in excess of £500,000, 12 were with companies whose registered offices are in England and Wales, and one has its registered office overseas. The 12 suppliers were Global Crossing, Computacentre, Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, AIT, Sytation, Logica, Integris, Cedar, Microsoft, NAI, CMG and Biomni. The overseas company was Amita, registered in Canada.