Written question asked by Geoffrey Hoon (Labour), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 29 November 1996. It was answered by Lord Selkirk of Douglas (Conservative) on Friday, 29 November 1996 on behalf of the Scottish Office.

Scottish Office

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 Scotland how many lines of computer code there are in his Department's computer systems. [5341] Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The Department uses a number of proprietary software packages and for these, information on the number of programmes or lines of source code is only known to the supplier. The Department is reviewing existing systems likely still to be in use in 2000 as part of our strategy for dealing with the year 2000 date change issue, but this review is not yet complete.

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