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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. Flight: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what his Department's (a) total managed expenditure, (b) total spending on Information Technology and (c) spending on Information Technology as a proportion of its total managed expenditure was in each financial year since 1997-98. [107181] Mr. Stephen Twigg: (a) The contribution by DfES to the Total Managed Expenditure can be measured by the total of spending under resource and capital budgets, less non-cash items in AME. Data for 1998-99 to 2001-02 were published in the 2002 Departmental Report (Cm 5402). New estimates will be published in the same table in the 2003 Departmental Report, in May 2003. (b) Estimates of spending on all Information Technology are not held centrally, and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However figures are available for administrative capital spending on Information Technology i.e. computers, telecommunications and software. This was 11.3 million in 1997-98, 9.0 million in 1998-99, 8.9 million in 1999-2000, 7.6 million in 2000-01, 8.7 million in 2001-02 and provisionally 7.5 million in 2002-03. (c) As information is not held on all Information Technology spend, data is not available on a comparable basis to total managed expenditure.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

107181; 404 c838W;404 c834-6W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

ICT Expenditure Government departments Department for Education and Skills

Link

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