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Written question asked by Brooks Newmark (Conservative) on Thursday, 25 January 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 29 January 2007. It was answered by Paul Goggins (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 February 2007 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.


Departmental Expenditure

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much his Department spent on buying, operating and supporting (a) all commercial software products and (b) software products produced by Microsoft in each of the last three years.
Answer

The following table provides details of the expenditure by the NIO on buying, operating and supporting commercial software products. The figures have been produced on a financial year basis. It has not been possible to identify a specific breakdown for Microsoft products relating to 2003-04 and therefore an overall figure has been provided.

£
2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006
All commercial software products — 226,843 392,329
Software products produced by Microsoft — 314,110 381,470
Total 592,363 768,440 773,779

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
112593; 457 c783W;457 c767-8W
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Software Northern Ireland Office Microsoft
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk07022236000187