HC Deb 17 July 2003 vol 409 cc536-7W
Dr. Francis

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list by project the consultancies his Department and its non-departmental bodies have used on e-Government projects since 1 January 2001. [122271]

Maria Eagle

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare, (Brian Cotter) on 22 May 2003,Official Report, columns 920–21W.

Two consultancies were mistakenly omitted from the table in my earlier answer. The complete list is as follows.

Project Consultancy Activity
E-Government Strategy BMRB Quantitative market research
AIA Consultancy Qualitative market research
Gov Connect (subcontracted by EDS) Strategic consultancy
Interactive e-Services Ezgov (subcontracted by EDS) Development of electronic forms
Accenture Project management
Detica Security and authentication solutions
Qinetiq Security and testing
Sema Project management
Digital Television (The Pension Service) DNA Design and development
MORI Evaluation
Worktrain Xansa Future strategy consulting
Brahm Design
Oakleigh Consulting Tendering strategy and project management
Commissum Consulting Security review
University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research/Adset Classification mapping
University of Sheffield Computing Department Development of natural language processing
Internet Job Bank KPMG Project audit
Cap Gemini Ernst and Young Strategic review of internet job bank and worktrain
Modernising Appeals PA Consulting General support
BT Syntegra Development
Disability.gov.uk Xansa Web re-design
OPRA (Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority) Logica Strategic study on use of e-Government technologies