asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those companies that 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.

The Ministry of Defence procured, primarily through Her Majesty's Stationery Office, dedicated word processing hardware and associated word processing software software from the following companies:

Year and Company	Total expenditure
	£
1984–85
Exxon/Vydec	1,566,000
AES
CPT
Phillips
Rank Xerox
Data Logic
Olivetti
Diamond (OTL)
1985–86
AES	1,184,000
CPT
Phillips
Rank Xerox
Olivetti
Logica
Data Logic
ICL
Canon
1986–87
AES	2,106,000
CPT
Phillips
Amstrad
ICL
Wordplex
Olivetti
OEM
Rank Xerox
GEC Reliance
Canon
Wang

General purpose hardware and word processing software with which it may be used are excluded.Only the figures for total expenditure are readily available, but for reasons of commercial confidentiality it would in any case be improper for me to give details of individual contract value.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence 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.

Expenditure on hardware dedicated to word processing, and word processing software, is not separately identifiable. Total expenditure was:

	£
1984–85	1,566,000
1985–86	1,184,000
1986–87	2,106,000

Projected expenditure for 1987–88 is about £1,200,000 and for 1988–89 about £1,320,000. General purpose hardware and word processing software with which it may be used are not included.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those companies that his Department has 1,184,000 awarded contracts for the supply of desktop hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.

Since 1984 the Ministry of Defence has procured desktop publishing hardware and software through Her Majesty's Stationery Office, from Apple Macintosh and Rank Zerox. For reasons of commercial confidentiality it would be improper for me to ive details of individual contract values.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent on (a) desktop publishing hardware and (b) desktop publishing software in each year since 1984 and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.

Expenditure on hardware and software dedicated to desktop publishing is not separable. Total expenditure was:

	£
1984–85	Nil
1985–86	37,800
1986–87	17,000

Projected expenditure for 1987–88 is about £48,000 and for 1988–89 about £65,000.