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Written question asked by Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative) on Thursday, 3 December 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 December 2009. It was answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Monday, 14 December 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.


Police: Databases

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what estimate he has made of the annual running costs of the new PentiP computer system in each of the next three years.
Answer

I have been asked to reply.The National Policing Improvement Agency has contracted Northgate Public Services to run PentiP as a managed service for an initial period of seven years. The annual charge for providing the managed service to 44 police forces and their associated courts in England and Wales (including British Transport Police) is as follows:

Service management year Annual charge (£)
Year l 1,818,643
Year 2 1,454,262
Year 3 1,382,386
Year 4 1,310,510
Year 5 1,310,510
Year 6 1,310,510
Year 7 1,310,510
Total over seven years 9,897,331

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
502 c799W; 305222
Session
2009-10
Subjects
Databases Police
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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