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Departmental Equipment

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) laptops and (b) mobile phones his Department bought in each year since 1997; and what the cost of each category of equipment was in each year. [41272]

John Healey: The number of laptops bought in 2005 was 115 and their cost was £108,350. Details for 1997–2004 can be found in the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (LynneFeatherstone) on 14 June 2005, Official Report, column 339W.

Figures for mobile phones are not available, as current Treasury records do not separate mobiles from other telecoms costs.

Departmental Estate

Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) land and (b) property his Department owns in the Southend West constituency. [41755]

John Healey: The Treasury owns no land or property in the Southend West constituency.

Departmental Expenditure

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent by his Department on refreshments in each year since 1997. [41257]

 
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John Healey: I refer to the answers I gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for Warley (Mr. Spellar) on 9 January 2006, Official Report, column 302W, and to the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) on 24 February 2005, Official Report, column 761W.

Mr. Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much has been spent in each year since 1997 by his Department on salaries paid to civil servants. [41579]

John Healey: Since financial year 1999–2000, departments' annual resource accounts, which are available from the Library of the House, have disclosed the staff costs of civil servants. The Treasury's resource accounts for the years 2001–02 onwards are also available at:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/about/resourceaccounts/resourceaccounts_index.cfm.

Departmental IT Systems

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department has spent on IT systems in each year since 1997; what the purpose of each system is; what the outturn against planned expenditure of each system was; and what the (a) planned and (b) actual date of completion was of each system. [41313]

John Healey: The information requested is set out as follows.

					Overrun (£000 and months)
Reference	Delivery (past and imminent)	System/purpose	Project cost £000	Running costs £000years	Cost	Time
1	Pre-1997	PANAGON—Document management system	—	50x9	—	—
2	Pre-1997	MINCOM—Management of Ministerial correspondence PQ system—Management of Parliamentary Questions Impres—Management of paper files	—	25x9	—	—
3	Pre-1997	GSI—Government Secure Intranet	—	114x9	—	—
4	1997 to 2005	Server and PCs technical refresh (3–4 year). [Current cost hardware and maintenance contract shown.]	—	250x9	—	—
5	1998	Replacement of Treasury Financial Information System (FIS)—monitoring of departmental expenditure	559	—	—	—
6	1999	PS/ENTERPRISE—Replacement of central HR/personnel system for HMT.	337	25x7	—	1
7	2000	Provision of a search engine to enhance the document management repository, internet and Intranet in HMT.	600	12.5x5	350	—
8	2001	ABACUS—Replacement of Treasury's domestic accounting system	900	250x4	—	—
9	2001	Implementation of the GOLD system for the Consolidation of Central Government Accounts.	622	13x4	—	—
10	2001	Redevelopment of Treasury's public web site, including provision of a CMS—content management system	250	80x4	—	—
11	2001	Provision of IT services in support of HMT Business Continuity Plan (BCP).	1,455	—	—	—
		Services:	—	191.2x4	—	—
		Colt link to HMT—35k
		GSI connection—123k
		Reuters—6.3k
		Data Circuit—6.1k
		Telecom lines—18.5k
		Hardware maint.—2.3k
12	2001	Updating the Treasury's desktop to incorporate MS Windows and Office 2000 products (includes: Oasis Build 6 implementation £1,111; MS Windows based servers (moved from Netware), File and Print servers, MS Exchange 5.5 servers).	2,500	—	—	—
13	2002	Move and provision of new IT facilities in new HMT building, 1 Horse Guards Road.	1,717	—	—	—
14	2002	Conversion of HMT PCs from Token Ring networking to Ethernet working.	260	-	-	-
15	2002	Improvements to the capacity, reliability, performance and ease-of-use of secure remote working facilities in HMT.	500	—	—	—
16	2005	COINS—Integration of three Government financial data systems to form a Single Data System (SDS). [Scope increased significantly and timetable adjusted].	4,560	104	2,160	24
17	2005	JIGSAW—Enhancing Electronic Document and Records Management system (EDRMS). [Re-scoped and timetable lengthened].	2,166	86	366	6
18	2005	Replacement of the computer system 'TACSYS' which supports the operational accounting and cashflow forecasting work of the Treasury Exchequer Funds and Accounts team 'TRiP' [October 2002 budgeted at £1.1 million, soon thereafter, the project was stopped because of the opportunity to implement a cheaper solution and provide an opportunity to review the complex requirements.]	1,100	100x7	280	24

Notes:
1.Maintenance is quoted at current rates.
2.The costs shown for each of the IT systems cover externally-provided hardware, software and implementation costs and may, in addition, cover other costs such as training where this will be part of the initial contract to be placed with the external contractor. The costs of in-house development are not included.
3.IT systems with estimated or actual costs of over £100,000 or with running costs of over £20,000 p.a. are included in the table, as information on smaller systems has not been centrally held throughout this period, and so complete information is not readily available.





 
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Departmental Publications

Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy to publish, as an annex to his annual report, a list of all publications by his Department in the preceding year; and if he will make a statement. [41731]

John Healey: There are no plans to publish a list of publications in the departmental report. However, all major Treasury publications can be found on the websites of the Treasury Group (website addresses:

www.hm-treasury.gov.uk www.dmo.gov.uk www.ogc.gov.uk)

Diabetes

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths there have been from diabetes in each year since 1997. [42020]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 January 2006:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths there have been from diabetes in each year since 1997. (42020)

The latest year for which data are available is 2004. Figures for deaths where diabetes was the underlying cause of death and where diabetes was mentioned on the death certificate as a contributory factor are shown in the table below for each year from 1997 to 2004.

Number of deaths from diabetes⁽¹⁰¹⁾, England and Wales,1997 to 2004⁽¹⁰²⁾

Calendar year	Underlying cause	Mentioned on death certificate
1997	5,890	23,832
1998	5,938	24,116
1999	5,963	24,338
2000	5,773	24,193
2001	(103)6,119	25,002
2002	(103)6,192	25,929
2003	(103)6,316	27,027
2004	(103)5,837	26,638

⁽¹⁰¹⁾The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1997 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-I0) for 200I onwards. The codes used are listed below:
Diabetes mellitus—ICD-9 250; ICD-10 EI0-EI4.
⁽¹⁰²⁾Figures are based on deaths occurring in each calendar year.
⁽¹⁰³⁾The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2001 means that data for diabetes as the underlying cause of death are not completely comparable with data for years before this date. The data should therefore be interpreted with caution.



 
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