APPENDIX 1
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
the Home Office
Question 63: Summary breakdown of Home IT expenditure
2000-01?
Home Office IT expenditure for 2000-01 was £210.741
million. This figure includes expenditure by the department itself,
its agencies and NDPBs. Among the larger contracts are the following:
— Sirius—The provision of support
and maintenance to the core Home Office IT infrastructure, desktop
network and telecommunications services
— Quantum—The provision of support
and maintenance to HM Prison Service IT infrastructure, desktop
network and telecommunications services
— Airwave—A new digital communications
service for Police
— NSPIS—Case Preparation and
Custody applications for the Police
— IBIS—Criminal Justice IT programme
— IAFP—The Immigration Asylum
Fingerprint Project to create and implement an automatic fingerprint
identification system.
Question 119: Split of costs between the Home
Office and Probation Areas?
The cost of the NPSISS contract can be divided
between the centre (Home Office) and local services. This division
shows that the centre contributed approximately 30 per cent to
the cost, the remaining 70 per cent being paid by the Probation
Service (areas). This division does not include costs for Home
Office and local project management and consultancy expenditure
nor local training costs. Until 1 April 2001, 80 per cent of each
Probation Service's funding was provided through Home Office grant.
The Probation Service is now wholly funded by the Home Office.
In relation to Probation Services which did
not become part of the NPSISS infrastructure, these services were
expected to finance their infrastructures through local funding
and did not receive capital grant funding from the Home Office.
As a result of several breaches of the conditions
of the contract including the shortfall in the number of wide
area network connections compared with the minimum specified in
the agreement, a £2 million payment was made to Bull/Integris.
This was paid centrally by the Home Office. This payment was highlighted
in the NAO report.
Question 172: Value of bids for NPSISS
The three bids for the NPSISS contract in 1994
were as follws:
After assessment, Bull was selected as it offered
the best value overall. It is not possible to judge how much overruns
in the unsuccessful bids would have been.
Home Office
November 2001
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