To ask the Prime Minister if he will raise the need for computer systems to be millennium compliant at the forthcoming summits of (a) the G8, (b) the EU and (c) the EU and USA; and if he will make a statement. [33865]

The century date change will be raised within the G8 either at the Summit or at the meeting of Foreign and Finance Ministers. In addition to raising the issue at the Telecommunications Council we are also exploring with the European Commission at what other events it should be discussed.