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Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food

Answer

Mr. Field: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the IT projects currently undertaken in his Department; and if he will state the (a) expected completion date and (b) cost of each project. [151505] Ms Quin: [holding answer 26 February 2001]: A list of the major IT projects costing most than £100,000 and undertaken in the current year is shown in the table, together with the requested supplementary information. This includes a number of projects for the monitoring and control of animal diseases, as well as on-going projects for the payment of a number of common agricultural policy schemes which need annual amendment to take account of changes agreed by the EU. Costs relating to maintenance of existing systems and services are excluded. Major IT projects are approved (or rejected) on the basis of business cases indicating the benefits to the Department to be delivered from the expenditure, and are managed by formal project boards chaired by senior staff. The ensure probity and value for money, procurements are undertaken in compliance with EC public procurement rules, UK Government domestic procurement policy and best practice guidance to ensure probity and value for money, government accounting rules and National Audit Office requirements. MAFF is also implementing the relevant recommendations of the report "Successful IT-- Modernising Government in Action", published in May 2000. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. IT projects End date Total State Veterinary Service network/TB {1}-- 5,306,704 implementation Replacement for current Vet Net July 2001 150,000 systems--pilot projects Cattle Ear Tag Allocation System April 2001 200,000 Geographical Information Systems for Animal April 2001 542,133 Disease Control British Cattle Movement Service Strategic {1}-- 3,204,727 Enhancements and Integration Testing of IT System Web Access to Cattle Tracing System May 2001 1,759,153 Monitoring of Animal Movements within UK and {1}-- 237,965 EC Pet Travel Scheme August 2000 250,000 GB Cattle Herd Registration Development November 2000 1,367,000 Scrapie Control System July 2001 1,908,223 Food Survey System replacement March 2002 1,329,020 Grants and Subsidies Management System for {1}-- 2,823,476 Common Agricultural Policy Payments Combined Bovine Risk Assessment Scheme December 2001 2,151,500 Beef Extensification Premium Scheme May 2001 1,339,000 New Common Agricultural Policy Support {1}-- 15,846,854 Systems Cattle Slaughter Premium Scheme {1}-- 1,767,500 Agenda 2000 {1}-- 1,378,650 Hill Farmers Allowance May 2001 1,838,501 England Rural Development Programme February 2003 2,135,375 Sea Fish Management Systems {1}-- 394,005 Fisheries Satellite Surveillance July 2003 322,541 Integration of Existing Building and Estate {1}-- 1,553,085 Management Databases Upgrade to Financial Systems and reporting {1}-- 10,878,802 tools E-Commerce December 2001 1,867,334 Replacement Office/Corporate Systems December 2001 9,827,835 Central Science Laboratories (CSL): October 2001 500,000 Integrated Business Information System CSL:Upgrade to Hardware to run new Office May 2001 250,000 Systems Centre for Environmental, Fisheries and March 2003 350,000 Aquaculture Science (CEFAS): Laboratory Information Management Systems CEFAS: Biological Sampling System March 2003 120,000 Farming and Rural Conservation Agency April 2002 462,000 (FRCA): Invest to Save Interdepartmental project (MAGIC) Geographical Information System FRCA: Cartography Tool Kit April 2003 930,000 FRCA: basic mapping for administration of October 2001 292,000 agri-environment schemes Intervention Board (IB): Oracle Multi Org February 2001 252,000 for Intervention Board IB: Block Guarantee Scheme System April 2001 198,000 Redevelopment IB: Audit Logging December 2001 187,548 IB: Data Integration March 2001 287,833 IB: Brussels Matrix March 2001 429,018 IB: Modulation June 2001 350,000 IB: Over Thirty Month Scheme System July 2001 343,214 Extension IB: Slaughter Premium Scheme System June 2001 735,428 Development IB: Porting PI Open Systems to Universe December 2001 1,150,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Annual revision required

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

151505; 364 c476-8W;364 c476-7W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Software Costs ICT Government departments Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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