Departmental Information and Communications Technology

Justine Greening
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.

Mr. Sutcliffe
My Department has developed the following IT systems:

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