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 John Wheeler (Conservative) on Thursday, 28 November 1996 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.

Northern Ireland Office

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

Answer: Mr. Hoon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems. [5344] Sir John Wheeler: My Department uses a number of proprietary software packages and for these, information on the number of programs or lines of source code is known only to the supplier. My Department is carrying out an inventory of that bespoke software which is likely to still be in use in Year 2000 as part of our strategy for dealing with the Year 2000 date change issue, but compilation of the inventory is not yet complete.

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