Departmental Databases

Mr. Hoban
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what databases are (a) owned and (b) maintained by (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies.

Mr. Thomas
The Department owns 165 databases as at 1 June 2007, of which 75 are maintained by departmental staff and 90 are maintained by external companies.

DBERR agencies—Companies House and the Insolvency Service—have been asked to respond directly to the hon. Member.