Written question asked by Geoffrey Hoon (Labour), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 27 November 1996. It was answered by Lord Horam (Conservative) on Wednesday, 27 November 1996 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: How many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems. - Figures not given.

Answer: Mr. Hoon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems. [5349] Mr. Horam: The Department uses a number of proprietary software packages. For these, information on the number of programs or lines of source code is known only to the supplier. The Department is carrying out an inventory of those bespoke information technology systems that will still be in use in 2000 as part of out strategy for dealing with the year 2000 date change issues, but compilation of the inventory is not yet complete.

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