Departments: Information and Communications Technology Chris Huhne To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the (a) originally estimated, (b) most recently estimated and (c) outturn cost was of the five largest information technology contracts agreed by his Department with outside suppliers over the last five years, as referred to in the answer of 17 July 2006, Official Report, columns 233-4W, on information technology. James Purnell The information in the following table updates the estimated outturn for the IT contracts listed in my previous answer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Contract |Supplier |Contract estimate (£ million)|Previously reported contract outturn estimate (£ million)|Most recently estimated contract outturn estimate (£ million)| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Accord/Standard services business allocation (SSBA) |EDS |3433.5 |2396.8 |2,535.3 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Accord/Integrated Communications and Network Services (ICONS) |BT |1411.3 |870.0 |942.3 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Pensions transformation project |Accenture|181.3 |122.0 |165.1 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Benefits processing replacement programme/Working age transformation and change programme|IBM |123.4 |79.7 |49.8 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Central payment system |Siemens |59.6 |59.6 |59.6 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------