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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Consultancy Services
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development pursuant to his answer of 19 October 2004, Official Report, columns 562–64W, on consultancy services, (1) if he will list the contracts awarded to Options Consultancy Services Ltd. in 1999–2000, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195739]
(2) if he will list the contracts awarded to Deloitte & Touche South Africa in 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract and (b) the country in which the work was conducted; [195745]
(3) if he will list the contracts awarded to Adam Smith International Ltd. in each year from 1999–2000 to 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195756]
(4) if he will list the contracts awarded to The Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations Ltd. in each year from 1999–2000 to 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195757]
(5) if he will list the contracts awarded to Arcadis BMB in 2001–02 listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195740]
(6) if he will list the contracts awarded to Maxwell Stamp plc in 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract and (b) the country in which the work was conducted; [195749]
(7) if he will list the contracts awarded to WSP International Ltd. in each year from 1999–2000 to 2001–02, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract and (b) the country in which the work was conducted; [195750]
(8) if he will list the contracts awarded to ATOS KPMG Consulting Ltd. in (a) 2000–01 and (b) 2002–03; what was conducted under the contract; what the value of the contracts was; and in which country the work was conducted; [195741]
(9) if he will list the new contracts awarded to each consultancy during 2003–04; what work was conducted under each contract; and in which country; [195742]
(10) if he will list the contracts awarded to Futures Group Europe Ltd., listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract and (b) the country in which the work was conducted; [195751]
(11) if he will list the contracts awarded to IHSD Ltd./HLSP in each year from 1999–2000 to 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195752]
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(12) if he will list the contracts awarded to Oxford Policy management Ltd. in each year from 2000–01 to 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195743]
(13) if he will list the contracts awarded to the British Council in each year from 1999–2000 to 2002–03, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract and (b) the country in which the work was conducted; [195744]
(14) if he will list the contracts awarded to GRM International Ltd., listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted; [195753]
(15) if he will list the contracts awarded to Roughton International, listing the type of work conducted under the contract, the value of the contract and the country in which the work was conducted; [195754]
(16) if he will list the contracts awarded to Enterprise plc, listing the type of work conducted under the contract, the value of the contract and the country in which the work was conducted; [195755]
(17) if he will list the contracts awarded to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999–2000, listing (a) the type of work conducted under the contract, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the country in which the work was conducted. [195758]
Hilary Benn: The information requested will be placed in the Libraries of the House shortly, in a document entitled "Top 20 Consultancy Firms 1999 to 2004—Contracts Awarded"
Departmental Estate
Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will list the properties occupied by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2004; and what the (A) area and (B) annual rental value (1) in aggregate and (2) in each case was in each year. [196071]
Hilary Benn: The properties occupied by DFID in the UK in 1997 and in 2004, their area, and annual rental value, are as set out in the table. There are no agencies for which DFID is responsible. The rent at 20 Victoria Street increased following a rent review in 2002 and because DFID took over full occupancy of the building
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Departmental IT
Brian White: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what percentage of the Department's (a) implemented and (b) planned computer systems use open source software; and what plans are in place to raise this level. [195653]
Hilary Benn: Less than 5 per cent. of DFID's current computer systems use Open Source Software (OSS) components. It is expected that by 2007, up to 70 per cent. of DFID's computer systems will include some OSS components, using the definition adopted by the Open Source Initiative. DFID's policies for software procurement follow the Office of Government Commerce's "level playing field" policy in relation to OSS. This does not require the raising of levels of OSS usage in Government, rather that Government considers OSS solutions alongside proprietary ones in IT procurements and that contracts should be awarded on a value for money, case by case basis. The policy can be viewed at www.govtalk.gov.uk
Ghana
Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when the IPPD2 Ghana payroll system project started; what the initial contract value of the project was; what the projected total contract value is; what the (a) original and (b) current estimated completion date is; and what assessment has been made of the value for money represented by the project. [194942]
Hilary Benn: A project for the replacement of the Government of Ghana's Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database (IPPD2) was agreed between Britain and Ghana in May 1999. The total commitment was £3.5 million, of which £1.5 million was designated for contracts for goods and services and £2 million was designated for financial aid to the Government of Ghana. The projected completion date was October 2000. When that date was reached, expenditure amounted to £2.3 million, of which £1.2 million had been spent on contracts for goods and services and £1.1 million had been spent on financial aid. However, DFID decided that there were serious obstacles to the achievement of the project's objectives, and informed the Government of Ghana that the funding commitment would not be extended.
Since then there have been extensive discussions with the Government of Ghana over restarting the project. A further grant of £3.9 million was agreed in principle, in October 2002, but lapsed in March 2004. £129,000 was spent under the grant for an audit of the previous work and advice on options. However, there is presently no agreed project receiving DFID support, and no date for completion of the IPPD replacement.
The project has previously been reported to the House as "only partly achieving [its] purpose and output during 2003"—Official Report, 20 May 2004, columns 1122–23W. A subsequent analysis of the project's implementation status found that the project had not met its objectives.
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