Ordnance Survey (Hansard, 10 May 2004)

§ Mr. Sayeed
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how much money from Government(a) grants and (b) contracts, Ordnance Survey has used to support its commercial aerial activities. [153755]

§ Yvette Cooper
None.

§ Mr. Sayeed
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister for what reason Ordnance Survey rejected Getmapping's bid for the Millennium Map to be adopted as the Imagery Layer in Digital National Framework in November 2001. [153757]

§ Yvette Cooper
Ordnance Survey takes third party data into its databases only after full and careful consideration of content, quality, price and management of intellectual property rights associated with the data 105W being evaluated. The OJEU process is always used for this purpose when there are alternative sources. To ensure value for money, the costs. benefits and quality of Ordnance Survey's own in-house capability is taken into consideration in these evaluations.
The reasons for rejecting particular third party data are confidential between Ordnance Survey and the third party.

§ Mr. Sayeed
To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many sales Ordnance Survey made of the Millennium Map during the period of its contract as a re-seller of the map. [153759]

§ Yvette Cooper
Ordnance Survey gave notice to terminate its contract with Getmapping for distribution of Getmapping products in April 2002.
Statistics of commercial sales of partners' products by Ordnance Survey are confidential between Ordnance Survey and its partners.