Departmental Information and Communications Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what IT systems have been in development for use within his Department in the last five years; what the reason for the development of each system was; how much has been spent on the development of each system; and which systems have been subsequently (a) implemented, (b) terminated prior to implementation and (c) terminated following implementation. (290542)

My Department has developed the following IT systems:

System	Purpose	Cost (£)
Livelink	Electronic document and records management	2,469,198
FoI/CMS	The management of Freedom of Information cases and general correspondence	467,654
User Account Request	Provide electronic requests for IS services with approval workflows	24,196
Enterprise Search	Provide an integrated search across all DCMS internal data.	72,396
Nakisa	Staff Directory	50,330
Secure Sharepoint	To provide a method of collaborating securely with third parties such as NDPBs and delivery partners up to restricted level.	533,851
CIBU Wiki	Information sharing for briefing and correspondence	212,485

All have been implemented except Secure Sharepoint which is in the final stages of development. None have been terminated.

This answer does not include systems that are procured as a service such as the accounting and HR services.

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009