Written question asked by Geoffrey Hoon (Labour), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 28 November 1996. It was answered by Gary Streeter (Conservative) on Thursday, 28 November 1996 on behalf of the Lord Chancellor's Department.

Lord Chancellors Dept

Question: How many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems.

Answer: Mr. Hoon: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems. [5524] Mr. Streeter: The Department is building an inventory of systems and software likely to still be in use in 2000 as part of its strategy for dealing with the 2000 date change issue, but compilation of the inventory is not yet complete. However, the Department has approximately 3.75 million lines of computer code in its major in-house systems which are currently in use. The Department also uses a number of proprietary software packages and for these, information on the number of programmes or lines of source code is known only to the supplier.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 5524; 286 c327W;286 c327-8W
Session: 1996-97
Subjects: Software Computers Government departments Lord Chancellor's Department
Contains statistics: Yes