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Departments: IT

Volume 463: debated on Monday 3 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 4 December 2006, Official Report, columns 182-84W, on IT projects, which information technology projects are being undertaken by (a) her Department and (b) its agencies; what the (i) start date, (ii) original planned completion date, (iii) expected completion date, (iv) originally planned costs and (v) estimated planned costs are of each; and if she will make a statement. (151552)

IT projects undertaken by Communities and Local Government and its agencies are as follows:

(a) Communities and Local Government (including Regional Coordination Unit and Government Offices in the Regions).

Project

Start date

Original planned completion date

Expected completion date

Originally planned costs (£000)

Estimated planned costs (£000)

Buynet upgrade to SRM4

March 2007

April 2007

August 2007

96

96

Replacement infrastructure for Peoplesoft HR system

November 2006

May 2007

October 2007

537

400

HQ human resources database, further development 4th release—includes Online Performance Management

April 2007

October 2007

October 2007

525

525

Government offices human resources database, further development

April 2007

March 2008

March 2008

150

150

Government offices Online Performance Management System, further development

April 2007

March 2008

March 2008

150

150

FiReControl (regional fire control centres)1

2004

2009

2011

120,000

190,000

FireLink2

June 2002

December 2007

June 2009

350,000

350,000

Fire incident recording system

January 2006

December 2006

August 2007

1,300

2,500

Website rationalisation (incorporating Info41ocal rebuild project)3

December 2005

June 2008

December 2008

3,200

53,600

LINK (new corporate desktop system)4

February 2005

October 2006

December 2007

2,064

2,064

EDRMS4

October 2006

December 2006

December 2007

699

699

DCLG corporate web hosting

June 2006

March 2007

July 2007

578

660

RSGS replacement

July 2006

January 2008

January 2008

737

737

Floor Targets interactive rebuild

January 2007

May 2007

August 2007

250

300

Notes:1 The FiReControl project is principally a business change project with an IT component. 2 Firelink is a radio communications system project for the Fire and Rescue Service across Great Britain, with an element of IT. 3 A project to rebuild the Info41ocal website was approved in November 2004 at a cost of £244,000. The project was deferred for later incorporation into the Department's Website Rationalisation Project. 4 LINK and EDRMS are two out of three component projects that made up the ITSOP project listed in the Answer published on 4 December 2006. The remaining component—the outsourcing of the Department's IT services—was completed on 31 December 2006. EDRMS is the pilot deployment of electronic document and records management system to selected key users.

5 Plus 400 for Info41ocal.

(b) Agencies of the Department.

Planning Inspectorate have no IT projects currently being undertaken.

Project

Start date

Original planned completion date

Expected completion date

Originally planned costs (£000)

Estimated planned costs (£000)

Fire Service College

FRS Managed Learning Environment

January 2006

April 2007

April 2008

5,500

5,500

QEII Conference Centre

Meeting Matrix

June 2007

September 2007

September 2007

65

65