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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the IT projects his Department plans to undertake in the next year; and if he will state in each case the (a) expected date of commencement and completion and (b) cost. [151476] Mr. Wills: [holding answer 26 February 2001]: The major information technology projects to be started in the next year are listed in the table. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Project Description Start date Completion date Estimated project cost Correspondence handling Enhancements to the April 2001 October 2001 350,000 system introduced in April 2000 for moving and tracking correspondence electronically Infrastructure upgrades Replacement of PCs and April 2001 March 2002 3,000,000 servers _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Following on from the achievements the Employment Service (ES) has made in the last 12 months the ES is committed to improving its main advisory tool, the Labour Market System, which should see major improvements by December 2001 at a cost of £9.2 million. The Modernising ES programme is already delivering new and exciting ways in helping customers come closer to the labour market, e.g. Jobpoints and Internet Jobbank, and the next steps are for the ES to engage with DSS colleagues on how best to take forward the IT requirements of the new agency. This will occur over the coming months.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

151476; 363 c651-2W;363 c652W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Software Costs ICT Government departments Department for Education and Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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