HC Deb 15 June 2004 vol 422 c835W
Denzil Davies

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much in total has been paid to external commercial, legal and financial advisers in respect of the STEPS agreement. [178102]

Dawn Primarolo

The STEPS agreement can be split into two distinct activities—the STEPS Project prior to contract go live in April 2001 and STEPS Contract Management since then. The costs given as follows for external commercial, legal and financial advice in respect of the STEPS agreement reflect this:

£
STEPS Cost
Project 8,545,992
Contract 1 April to 4 April 4,838,910

Denzil Davies

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was paid by the Department to Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited in each year to April(a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004. [178131]

Dawn Primarolo

Payments to Mapeley STEPS Contractor Limited for the Chancellors Departments are:

To April £
2002 301,945,016.19
2003 309,546,889.08
2004 309,264,264.67