Departmental ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with reference to the answer of 30 October 2008, Official Report, column 1169W, on departmental ICT, what the (a) expected completion date and (b) expected cost was at the outset of each project. (242153)

The additional information requested is provided in the following table.

Project name	Original planned completion date	Original estimated cost (£ million)
Causeway Programme	December 2006	42.7
Prisoner Record Information System (PRISM)—Technical Refresh	March 2010	1.3

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland with reference to the answer of 13 November 2008, Official Report, column 1317W, on departmental ICT, what the original cost estimates were for the projects listed. (243508)

The additional information requested is provided in the following table.

Project name	Original estimated cost (£million)
Causeway Programme	42.7
Prisoner Record Information System (PRISM)—Technical Refresh	1.3

Volume 485: debated on Wednesday 17 December 2008