To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether EDS will achieve capability maturity model integration levels 4 and 5 in the IT services they provide to his Department. (248937)

EDS have provided the following statement:

“EDS achieved Capability Mature Model Integration (CMMI) level 3 in all its UK DWP Applications Services in May 2007. It intends to continue to improve the quality of the services it provides to the Department and plans to move from CMMI level 3 to CMMI level 5 in the UK by the end of 2010”.