To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list by project the consultancies her Department and its non-departmental public bodies have used on e-government projects since 1st January 2001. [114187]

[holding answer 16 May 2003]: Based on centrally-held records, the following e-government consultancies have been used within the core department since 1st January 2001.

Project	Consultancy
Business Support Review	Cap Gemini Ernst and Young
Government Gateway Scoping Study	Unitas consortium
Government Gateway Guidelines	Unitas consortium
E-procurement	Kermon/Xansa
British Trade International e-government programme	Cathedral consortium (2 assignments)
Small Business Service customer relationship management programme	Yale consulting
'business gov' programme	Cathedral consortium
Electronic services to mobile phones proof of concept	IMB
Scoping study into DTI customer relationship management	Unitas consortium
Enhancements to DTI customer relationship management programme	Parity
Consumer Direct consumer helpline pilots evaluation	Compass Partnership
Consumer Direct project planning and implementation	Sophron

These records do not cover the department's non-departmental public bodies and gathering the information from them would incur disproportionate cost.