asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and word processing software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
In the financial years 1985–86 and 1986–87 my Department purchased microcomputers from the Apricot Computers PLC range in association with software from Microsoft Ltd. for its word processing requirements. For reasons of commercial confidentiality I am unable to disclose the value of individual contracts.
asked the Secretary of State for Energy 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.
My Department's expenditure on word processing systems is as follows;
| £ | ||
| Financial year 1985–86 | Actual | 40,000 |
| Financial year 1986–87 | Actual | 56,000 |
| Financial year 1987–88 | Forecast | 67,000 |
asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of desk-top publishing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
My Department has not purchased any desktop publishing hardware or software.
asked the Secretary of State for Energy 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.
My Department has not purchased any desktop publishing hardware or software, but it will keep the possibility under review.