asked the Secretary of State for Scotland 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.
Contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software have been awarded to the following companies:
Year and Company
1984–85
- IBM (UK) Ltd.
- Information Technology Ltd.
1985–86
- IBM (UK) Ltd.
- Olivetti
- AES Data
- Wordplex
1986–87
- IBM (UK) Ltd
- Computerland
- Microcentre
- City Business Computers
- MBS Computer Services
- ICL
- Wordplex
The total value of contracts awarded was £1,519,860.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing hardware and (b) word processing software in each year since 1984; and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
My Department has spent the following sums on word processing hardware and software since 1984:
| Year | Cost |
| £ | |
| (a)Word processing Hardware | |
| 1984–85 | 494,725 |
| 1985–86 | 320,776 |
| 1986–87 | 595,035 |
| (b)Word Processing Software | |
| 1984–85 | 27,747 |
| 1985–86 | 35,337 |
| 1986–87 | 46,240 |
| Hardware | Software | |
| £ | £ | |
| 1987–88 | 200,436 | 16,584 |
| 1988–89 | 29,951 | 20,914 |
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland 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.
Contracts for the supply of desk top publishing hardware and software have been awarded to Rank Xerox in each of the years 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87 to a total value of £99,000.
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department has spent on (a) desk top publishing hardware and (b) desk top publishing software in each year since 1984; and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
My Deprtment has spent the following sums on desk top publishing hardware and software since 1984:
| Year | Cost |
| £ | |
| (a)Desk top publishing hardware | |
| 1984–85 | 59,167 |
| 1985–86 | 17,168 |
| 1986–87 | 17,782 |
| (b)Desk top publishing software | |
| 1984–85 | 890 |
| 1985–86 | 1,780 |
| 1986–87 | 748 |