Ministerial Corrections Ministerial Corrections Friday 27 March 2009 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Departmental ICT Mr. Hoban To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what IT projects (a) his Department and (b) each of its agencies is undertaking; and what the most recent estimate of (i) the cost and (ii) the completion date of each is. [Official Report, 12 November 2008, Vol. 482, c. 1226-1227W.] Letter of correction from Huw Irranca-Davies: An error has been identified in the table of the written answer given to the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) on 12 November 2008. The figure for RenewIT of £3,810,000 was incorrect and should have been £9,000,000. The correct answer is as follows: Huw Irranca-Davies The following table details current major IT projects in DEFRA and its largest executive agencies, the Rural Payments Agency and Animal Health. The projects detailed are those which cost more than £1 million over the life of the project. Costs listed exclude day-to-day running costs after the completion of the project. Projects costing less than £1 million and those within smaller executive agencies have been excluded as data collection for these would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department to compile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Project |Expected completion date|Estimated costs (£)| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Animal Health Business Reform Programme |March 2011 |98,000,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Cap Health Check Implementation Programme |November 2009 |25,300,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Customer Land Database (CLAD) |October 2009 |1,730,600 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Enabling Technology |March 2009 |4,223,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |INSPIRE/UK Location Strategy Implementation Programme |December 2012 |12,800,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |RenewIT |March 2009 |9,000,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rural Payments Agency Managed Document Service |March 2009 |2,300,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rural Payments Agency Rural Land Register Upgrade |March 2012 |23,000,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rural Payments Agency Single Payment System Upgrade (including CAP Health Check)|November 2009 |23,700,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Rural Payments Agency Storage Servers Upgrade |March 2010 |3,400,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Spatial Information Repository (SPIRE) |August 2009 |14,965,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Web Rationalisation |March 2011 |1,440,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Whole Farm Approach |March 2011 |74,000,000 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defence SERCO Mr. Flello To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the value was of his Department's contracts held with SERCO in each of the last five financial years. [Official Report, 10 February 2009, Vol. 487, c. 1878W.] Letter of correction from Bob Ainsworth: An error has been identified in the table of the written answer given to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Flello) on 10 February 2009. The 2007-08 figure of £763 million was incorrect and should have been £595 million. The correct answer is as follows: Mr. Bob Ainsworth The value of contracts with SERCO Group plc, in terms of spend, in each of the last five financial years was as follows: ------------------- | |£ million| ------------------- |2003-04|244 | ------------------- |2004-05|361 | ------------------- |2005-06|431 | ------------------- |2006-07|433 | ------------------- |2007-08|595 | ------------------- The figures are shown exclusive of VAT rounded to the nearest million. They exclude any contracts placed by MOD Trading Funds or by British Defence staff (Washington) and low-value purchase transactions, for which records are not held centrally.