§ Brian WhiteTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs what progress his Department has made to manage the changeover from the Bank Automated Clearing System to the new BACSTEL-iP system for electronic payments. [164319]
§ Mr. LammyThe Department's outsourced banking function (Liberata) have obtained costs for the new hardware and software required for the upgrade and made plans for the migration to BACSTEL-iP. The migration timetable is driven by our sponsoring bank, the Bank of England which is in the process of drawing up a timetable for implementation by December 2005.