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Departmental Expenditure

Volume 461: debated on Monday 11 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the original predicted cost was for the (a) CJS Exchange, (b) EDRM, (c) Adelphi, (d) immigration and nationality directorate's points based system, (e) Mycroft, (f) NSPIS Case and Custody, (g) IMPACT Nominal Index, (h) Cross Regional Information Sharing Project (CRISP), (i) WITR, (j) WISP, (k) Warnings Index Portfolio, (l) Identity Management, (m) ePassports, (n) Biometric residence permits, (o) IBIP, (p) e-Borders procurement, (q) CIDTR, (r) identity cards, (s) CID and (t) NOMIS IT projects. (108115)

The Information requested is set out in the following table.

Policy/Programme

Project Name/ID

Project Description, Scope and the Key Elements/Sublevels

Original Planned Cost (£ million)

Current estimated cost (£ million)1

NOMS

NOMIS

National Offender Management Information System for the Prison service

200.00

200.00

IND 5 year Strategy

CID

Support and maintenance of existing casework system, and adaptation to developing business requirements

70.00

66.00

IND 5 year Strategy

CID TR

Redesign of existing casework system to facilitate support and maintenance, and adaptation to developing business requirements

36.00

Project now subsumed into other CID project

IND 5year Strategy

Biometric Residence Permits

Introduction of new format EU residence permits. Part of CID Project.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

e-Borders

e-Borders procurement

Involves the procurement and implementation of solution to capture and analyse passenger information in advance of arrival into/departure from the UK and alert the appropriate Border Control Agencies of high risk passengers. Also replaces the current WI system used to support clearance into the UK & watchlisting of visa applications.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

IND 5 year Strategy

IBIP

Key enabler for introduction of biometric-based identification "documents"

64.00

64.00

IND 5 year Strategy

ePassports (readers)

Provision of readers for new format passports. Sub-project within IBIP

9.00

1.40

IND 5 year Strategy

Identity Management (Fingerprint Recognition)

Major expansion of capacity of existing fingerprint recognition system. Sub-project within IBIP.

11.00

Project now subsumed into another multi-agency project

IND 5 year Strategy

Warnings Index Portfolio

Warnings Index Tech Refresh, Warnings Index Support Procurement

32.00

28.50

IND 5 year Strategy

WITR

Warnings Index Tech Refresh. Sub-project of Warnings Index Portfolio

21.00

14.50

IND 5 year Strategy

WISP

Warnings Index Support Procurement. Sub-project of Warnings Index Portfolio

11.00

14.00

Bichard Implementation

Home Office IMPACT Programme

Improves ability of police service to manage and share operational information to prevent and detect crime. Constituent projects: INI (IMPACT Nominal Index), IMPACTCRISP (IMPACT Cross Regional Information Sharing Project) and PND (Police National Database). Costs are From 2005-6 to 2015-16 including post-implementation costs

367.00

357.00

IND

Mycroft

Provides a secure networked intelligence system that delivers timely and legally compliant intelligence through the use of IT

65.00

42.00

IND

Points-Based system

Provides an automated points based system for assessing and deciding certain applications for leave to enter/remain in the UK

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

For reasons of commercial sensitivity we are not able to provide further cost details at this time.

Corporate Services

Adelphi

Finance, HR and procurement system for core HO

68.00

59.00

Corporate Services

EDRM

Records management

55.00

45.00

OCJR

CJS Exchange

Tri-laterally funded under OCJR. Exchange hub for data sharing across the CJS

240.00 over 10 years

260.00 over 10 years

| Police ICT

NSPIS Case and Custody

Electronic custody suite and case files

249.00 to April 2008. Note that this figure covers the cost of delivering the programme only. It does not include maintenance costs until April 2013. The figure of £364 million provided in response to PQ 86109 in July 2006 included all of these maintenance costs.

259

1This table provides the most up to date and reliable figures programmes/projects requested available for the