Departmental Expenditure

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how much was spent by her Department on buying, operating and supporting (a) all commercial software products and (b) software products produced by Microsoft in each of the last three years. (112603)

The Department for Communities and Local Government was created in May 2006.

The following figures in respect of expenditure on software licences and maintenance for the last three complete financial years are for the Department’s predecessor, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

*Corporate IT services*
£000¹
Financial year	Total software (including Microsoft)	Identifiable as Microsoft
2003-04	993	230
2004-05	817	230
2005-06	333	60
¹ These figures include the cost of licences, maintenance and upgrade protection and exclude VAT

Figures for software licences purchased by the ODPM for non-corporate IT services over the same period are as follows:

Financial year	Total software licences (£000)¹
2003-04	3,188
2004-05	2,636
2005-06	1,828
¹ Excluding VAT

Volume 456: debated on Tuesday 6 February 2007