asked the Paymaster General if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
For reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not possible to answer this question in the detail requested. However the following companies have supplied word processing equipment to the Department of Employment since 1984:
- British Olivetti
- Digital Equipment Company Ltd.
- Rank Xerox
- IBM
- Wang UK
- AES
- ICL
- Amstrad
- Canon
- Information Technology (UK)
- OEM
- Thorn—EMI
- Lexisystems
- Quest International
- Hewlett Packard
- Vistec
asked the Paymaster General how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing hardware and (b) word processing software in each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
For those parts of the Department for which figures are readily available, the figures are as follows:
| £ | |
| 1984–85 | 226,000 |
| 1985–86 | 474,000 |
| 1986–87 | 662,000 |
| 1987–88 | 795,000 |
| 1988–89 | 710,000 |
asked the Paymaster General if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of desktop publishing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
For reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not possible to answer this question in the detail requested. Since 1984, one contract to the value of £6,000 has been placed.
asked the Paymaster General how much his Department has spent on (a) desktop publishing hardware and (b) desktop publishing software in each year since 1984; and what is the projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
The figures are as follows:
| £ | |
| 1984–85 | Nil |
| 1985–86 | Nil |
| 1986–87 | 6,000 |
| 1987–88 | 20,000 |
| 1988–89 | Nil |