To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list IT contracts in his Department and its predecessors above £50 million in each year of the last 10 years; what the inception date for each system was; when it became fully functional; when it became fully debugged; and what the cost of over-runs has been. [99006]

The Department is aware of two contracts meeting the criteria.DSA let a contract for the delivery of the screen based driving theory test from the inception date of 4 January 2000 until 3 September 2004. The contract value is £80 million in total. The system was fully functional from the inception date and did not need to be debugged. There have been no cost over-runs.The Vehicle Inspectorate Agency awarded a contract for MOT Computerisation in February 2000. The contract value is £230 million. The planned completion date for full functionality is spring 2004. Cost has overrun by £4 million.