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Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Volume 490: debated on Friday 27 March 2009

Departmental ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what IT projects (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies is undertaking; and what the most recent estimate of (i) the cost and (ii) the completion date of each is.

[Official Report, 12 November 2008, Vol. 482, c. 1226-1227W.]

Letter of correction from Huw Irranca-Davies:

An error has been identified in the table of the written answer given to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) on 12 November 2008. The figure for RenewIT of £3,810,000 was incorrect and should have been £9,000,000.

The correct answer is as follows: (229162)

The following table details current major IT projects in DEFRA and its largest executive agencies, the Rural Payments Agency and Animal Health. The projects detailed are those which cost more than £1 million over the life of the project. Costs listed exclude day-to-day running costs after the completion of the project. Projects costing less than £1 million and those within smaller executive agencies have been excluded as data collection for these would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department to compile.

Project

Expected completion date

Estimated costs (£)

Animal Health Business Reform Programme

March 2011

98,000,000

Cap Health Check Implementation Programme

November 2009

25,300,000

Customer Land Database (CLAD)

October 2009

1,730,600

Enabling Technology

March 2009

4,223,000

INSPIRE/UK Location Strategy Implementation Programme

December 2012

12,800,000

RenewIT

March 2009

9,000,000

Rural Payments Agency Managed Document Service

March 2009

2,300,000

Rural Payments Agency Rural Land Register Upgrade

March 2012

23,000,000

Rural Payments Agency Single Payment System Upgrade (including CAP Health Check)

November 2009

23,700,000

Rural Payments Agency Storage Servers Upgrade

March 2010

3,400,000

Spatial Information Repository (SPIRE)

August 2009

14,965,000

Web Rationalisation

March 2011

1,440,000

Whole Farm Approach

March 2011

74,000,000