The following table shows the project name, purpose, actual end date and outturn included in the answer to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) of 14 March 2006, Official Report, column 2167W. We have added supplier/contractor and proportion of outturn columns and included the name of the principal IT suppliers/contractors for each project and the proportion of the outturn paid to these suppliers/contractors.
Project/purpose Actual end date Outturn (£ million) Supplier/contractor Proportion of outturn paid to the supplier/contractor (percentage) Customer Management System This system is an information gathering business process for working age income support, jobseeker’s allowance and incapacity benefit claims and changes of circumstances. It will allow information supplied by the customer to be gathered electronically by staff, improving efficiency and customer service. Staff will be able to check information supplied against that already held November 2005 250 IBM 41 EDS 16 ISCS/JSA Modernisation Project Delivered initiatives that enhanced or augmented existing Working Age IT systems. These included the sharing of electronic data with disability living allowance, attendance allowance and personal details computer systems August 2004 14 EDS 66 Digital Office Infrastructure DOI provided a modern IT infrastructure platform across the Department providing access for all staff to the internet and intranet and modern business software June 2004 1726 EDS 65 BT 30 Managing Core Systems Estate To improve the ways in which our core legacy systems are managed February 2005 5 Accenture 45 EDS 15 Pensions Forecasting Programme To establish the new Combined Pension Forecasting Service and enhance and replace the existing individual Pension Forecasting IT system April 2005 43 EDS 40 Pensions credit This project successfully introduced pension credit in October 2003. It delivered new IT functionality to existing DWP systems, and associated business products (eg training, staff guidance, customer notifications) October 2004 297 EDS 30.6 Payment Modernisation Programme The Payment Modernisation Programme aims to establish direct payment into a bank or building society account as the normal, method of payment for all customers. This includes those who wish to collect their money from the Post Office June 2005 366 EDS 12 ATOS Origin 47 1 This resource expenditure relates to 64 per cent. of the total DOI figure. The remaining 36 per cent. of the total relates to capital expenditure—the records that would allow us to provide an accurate picture of how this capital expenditure was split over the suppliers has been archived. The costs associated with the retrieval of these documents, and the accompanying staff time costs required to go through the records to identify these by supplier/contractor, would be excessive and time consuming. Notes: 1. Outturn figures show the final investment cost for the completed projects. 2. The New Tax Credits project has not been included above as the project is still ongoing. It was inadvertently shown as completed in my response to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) of 14 March 2006, Official Report, column 2167W.