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Written question asked by Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Conservative) on Thursday, 5 February 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 February 2009. It was answered by Jonathan Shaw (Labour) on Friday, 6 March 2009 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Departmental Databases

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost of maintaining the databases owned and managed by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies was in (i) 2006, (ii) 2007 and (iii) 2008.
Answer

The Department realigned its contracts with its major suppliers, EDS and BT, in 2005, which means the Department only pays for the IT services it consumes.As the contract pricing mechanisms are based on the volumes of services consumed, it is not possible to separately identify the elements of the service costs that relate to the maintenance and management of databases.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
488 c1861W; 256144
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Databases Department for Work and Pensions
Link
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