To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which services his Department has outsourced in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. (274454)

Information regarding contracts for the provision of estates management and corporately provided information and communications technology (ICT) which have been outsourced over the past five years, and the year that they were outsourced, are as follows:

Telephone service management (2007);

Security guarding services, not previously outsourced (2007).

Centrally held records do not show any other services being outsourced over that period.