§ Mr. FlightTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what her Department's(a) total managed expenditure (b) total spending on information technology and (c) spending on information technology as a proportion of its total managed expenditure was in each financial year since 1997–98. [107187]
§ Dr. HowellsThe figures for total managed expenditure and spend on information technology are as follows.
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£ million 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Total managed expenditure 4,187 4,949 5,590 5,486 5,766 IT expenditure 1.81 1.96 3.3 3 2.9 IT expenditure as percentage 0.04% 0.04% 0.06% 0.05% 0.05% The figure for information technology expenditure only covers departmental IT systems and services. It does not include expenditure on IT or IT projects that the Department's sponsored bodies may have undertaken.