To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much was spent on information technology (IT) sourced from outside his Department in each of the last five years; who is responsible for such projects in his Department; and what IT (a) expertise and (b) qualifications they possess. (71807)

The Department has a long term PFI Agreement with its IS/IT partner Fujitsu to supply its desktop services to the Department.

The spend for the last five years with Fujitsu, covering desktop services and application development and support is as follows:

Responsibility for ICT projects rests with Information and Workplace Services Directorate within the Department. As it is a PFI contract the IT expertise, and associated qualifications, rests with Fujitsu.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the (a) originally estimated, (b) most recently estimated and (c) outturn cost was in each of the five largest information technology contracts agreed with outside suppliers over the last five years. (71808)

The Department has a main Information Technology contract which is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Agreement with Fujitsu Services and has been in place for more than five years. The Department has also recently awarded a Competed Services Framework Arrangement to six other suppliers and this will enable an element of competition for future IT projects. To date no significant contracts have been awarded to these suppliers.

For the Department’s PFI Agreement with Fujitsu, covering desktop services and application development and support, spend in the last five years has been: