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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, when the trials will begin in Cornwall of the new Commercial Kiosk Service; how long the trial is due to last; which companies will be providing the (a) hardware, (b) software and (c) training of staff; and if she will...

Asked by

Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

77485; 392 c829-30W;392 (Not in Bound Volume)

House

House of Commons

Sainsbury of Turville, Lord

What their policy is towards the marketing technique, closely allied to the practice of spamming and recently reported in the media in respect of e-greeting cards, whereby computer users are invited to install an application on their computer, the licence of which grants permission for e-mails to be sent to...

Asked by

Earl of Northesk (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

640 c134WA; HL 6279

House

House of Lords

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) quantity and (b) proportion of patient records are computer-based; and what (i) quantity and (ii) proportion of cancer patient records are computer-based.

Asked by

Lord Barker of Battle (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

392 c535W;392 c547W; 78948

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, whether Horizon swipecard software will be used to support the Post Office Card Account. - Includes fact that I have asked Chief Executive to reply direct to the hon Member.

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

392 c729W;392 c748W; 79923

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many personal pension plans received duplicate National Insurance payments triggered by the NIRS2 computer system; how many personal pension plans were recovered from which duplicate National Insurance payments were triggered by the NIRS2 computer system; and what action his Department took to...

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

392 c763W;392 c792W; 79952;79954

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the value was of duplicate National Insurance payments made into personal pension plans triggered by the NIRS2 computer system; and if he will make a statement; what the value was of duplicate National Insurance payments that were recovered from personal pension plans...

Asked by

Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 November 2002

Reference

392 c763W;392 c791-2W; 79951;79953

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Asked by

Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 November 2002

Reference

77485; 392 (Not in Daily Part);392 c146-7W

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, What measures his Department is taking to enhance opportunities within the engineering industry to enter into partnership development roles during the procurement of high-tech equipment and software for the armed forces. (Failed OPQ).

Asked by

Lawrie Quinn (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 November 2002

Reference

76717; 392 c54W;392 c53W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the terms of his contract with EDS to supply electronic appointment technology to the NHS; and if he will list the other firms that were invited to tender for the contract to supply electronic appointment technology to the...

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 October 2002

For answer on

22 October 2002

Answered on

22 October 2002

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the terms of his contract with EDS to supply electronic appointment technology to the NHS; and if he will list the other firms that were invited to tender for the contract to supply electronic appointment technology to the NHS. [75521] Mr. Hutton: [holding answer 21 October 2002]: No contract has been awarded to EDS to supply electronic appointment system technology to the National Health Service. In line with the information technology procurement strategy proposed for the national programme for IT in the NHS, a selection process is underway using the NHScat managed services framework to identify and select a single ``prime service partner'' for electronic booking. The successful prime service partner will be contracted to provide and supply software products and planning and implementation services to local health communities jointly with potential systems and services suppliers. All companies on the NHS national framework agreement (NHScat), who were successful in the managed services category, were invited to submit proposals to become the prime service partner for the electronic booking project. The selection process is ongoing. A detailed evaluation was held of the twelve companies listed to provide IT managed services within the NHScat framework. These are BT Health, Computer Science Corporation (CSC), EDS, Elonex, Fujitsu Services, Hewlett Packard, Integris, Specialist Computer Centres (SCC), SX3, Siemens, Unisys, and Viglen. Following that, EDS and BT Health have been invited to put forward detailed proposals as potential IT managed service prime service partners for electronic booking systems. Any award of contract will be subject to successful conclusion of negotiations and approval of a formal business case. The selection process is being conducted under the supervision of the NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency.

Date

22 October 2002

Reference

75521; 391 c269-70W

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of online assessment users failed to send their information due to (a) technical incompatability or (b) website failure. - None.

Asked by

Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 October 2002

Reference

391 c214W; 75164

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will list which (a) software and (b) hardware is not able to access the Inland Revenue's online assessment forms.

Asked by

Simon Thomas (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 October 2002

Reference

391 c214W; 75163

House

House of Commons

Ordnance Survey. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committee first special report - government response to the Transport Local Government and the Regions Select Committee tenth report of session 2001/02 (HC 481).

Type

Select Committee reports (Government responses); House of Commons papers; Parliamentary committees

Committee

ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee

Notes

Received 04.11.02

Date

22 October 2002

Reference

HC 1249 2001/02

House

House of Commons

Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what his policy is towards using open source software; and what percentage is used in his Department. - Includes ref to www.e.envoy.gov.uk and www.ogc.gov.uk and fact that record of open source software in use across the Department is not held centrally and...

Asked by

Brian White (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Defence

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 October 2002

Reference

69327; 391 c51W

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will make a statement on the level of faults found in Microsoft products used by the UK Government in the last five years. - Information not held centrally.

Asked by

Michael Jack (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2002

Reference

390 c664W;390 c666W; 73826

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his policy is towards using open source software; and what percentage is used in his Department.

Asked by

Brian White (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 October 2002

Reference

69316; 390 c468-9W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of computer technology in matching fingerprints.

Asked by

Nick Gibb (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 October 2002

Reference

72119; 390 c470-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what his policy is towards using open source software; and what percentage is used in his Department.

Asked by

Brian White (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 September 2002

Reference

69307; 390 c353W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he will take to ensure the fairness and transparency of the procurement processes to be used in implementation of the new NHS ICT strategy; whose responsibility it will be to (a) choose and (b) enter into contracts with specific application...

Asked by

Oliver Heald (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 September 2002

Reference

390 c354W; 67998;67991;67984;67988;67985;67989

House

House of Commons

Irvine of Lairg, Lord

Lords Statement on What is the progress of discussions between the Lord Chancellors Dept and Fujitsu Services on the Libra project to provide IT services for the magistrates courts in England and Wales. [HL 5595].

Asked by

Baroness Serota (Labour)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 July 2002

Reference

638 c73-5WA; HL 5595

House

House of Lords

Lord Chancellors Dept

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he will make a statement on the progress of discussions between the Lord Chancellor's Department and Fijitsu Services on the Libra project to provide IT services for the magistrates' courts in England and Wales.

Asked by

Lord Knight of Weymouth (Labour)

Answering body

Lord Chancellor's Department

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

23 July 2002

For answer on

24 July 2002

Answered on

24 July 2002

Jim Knight: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will make a statement on the progress of discussions between the Lord Chancellor's Department and Fujitsu Services on the Libra project to provide IT services for the magistrates courts in England and Wales. [73445] Yvette Cooper: There are two parts to the Libra project: the provision of a modern IT infrastructure and network to link the magistrates courts with other parts of the criminal justice system and the special software for case management, accounting and other administration within the courts. Installation of the infrastructure and network is 75 per cent. complete and will be completed during the first half of 2003. The specialised software has been delayed. The Department has now signed a variation to the contract with Fujitsu Services (formerly known as ICL) in respect of the Libra project. Under these new arrangements, Fujitsu Services will continue to deliver the IT infrastructure and network and provide support until March 2007. However, the Department has decided that Fujitsu Services will not be required to continue with the development of the specialised software for case management, accounting and other administration. Serious concerns arose last year when delays in delivery of the software and increases in their costs led Fujitsu Services to seek to renegotiate the contract. As many courts and offices had already been equipped with the IT infrastructure, a basis for renegotiation was agreed. Despite intensive negotiation however, it has not proved possible to reach an agreement on the specialised software at an acceptable price, which will deliver value for money for the taxpayer. Instead, the Department will procure application services separately. Assessments show that robust, tried and tested software, is now available in the marketplace, which could meet requirements at a lower cost than that on offer from Fujitsu Services. The original 1998 contract was valued at £183 million to run until July 2009. A variation to this was signed with Fujitsu/ICL in 2000, which was valued at £319 million and was to run until 2013. This was not a real price increase as the extra cost was for the extra years and other benefits. In each case the contract with Fujitsu Services was for the delivery of both the infrastructure and the specialised software. The estimated value of the revised contract with Fujitsu Services is £232 million which includes some £31 million paid under the existing contract from 2000 to the end of June 2002 for the delivery and operation of the infrastructure services received by the magistrates courts. In addition, the Government have paid Fujitsu Services £6.8 million for design products produced as part of the software application development that can be reused. Apart from this amount, the financial and management risks of developing the software have been borne by the supplier. A number of studies have been carried out by external organisations to provide assurances on the way forward, including a benchmark exercise on the infrastructure costs and an assessment of the costs, timescales and market capacity to deliver the software application services. The benchmarking exercise shows that the cost of the provision of the infrastructure service in the revised contract is in line with the cost of similar services provided to organisations of similar size, structure and complexity in the private and public sectors. It is possible, but by no means certain, that a new competitive procurement could deliver the services for less cost, but the Department's assessment of the costs of delays and procurement and completing the implementation of the service to all courts shows that the revised contract provides best value for money to the taxpayer. The studies on the software application services indicate that the services can be delivered by the end of 2004--a delay of nine months on the original 1998 contract--and at a price that will be affordable and provide value for money. The Department is planning on this basis. However, these services will be subject to new procurements and the House will be informed of the outcome when the procurements have been completed. There are lessons to be learned for all parties from the project. Since the original award of contract a range of Government guidelines on managing IT contracts and on PFI/PPP contracts has been issued. These have been fully utilised in the recent negotiation. Improvements introduced on Libra in the last 12 months include strengthening of the governance arrangements, better risk management, the use of external benchmarking and an external review under the gateway process. This has provided more effective controls for the negotiations and future plans. The new arrangement separates the delivery of the infrastructure from the application which is designed to better ensure the success of the overall programme and at the same time place appropriate risk with the respective providers and the Department.

Date

24 July 2002

Reference

389 c1290-2W;389 c1288-90W; 73445

House

House of Commons

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