Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 6 November 2006.
Mark Prisk
Shadow Minister (Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform)
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much her Department has spent on (a) equipment and (b) consultants for (i) information technology and (ii) web-facing information technology projects in each year since 2001.
Geoff Hoon
Minister of State (Europe), Foreign & Commonwealth Office
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) undertakes a very wide range of IT-enabled projects. Strategic projects are managed centrally, but many others are delivered under a devolved system of financial responsibility under which Directorates and overseas posts have the freedom, subject to conformity with FCO technical standards and the need to demonstrate effective use of public funds, to invest in non-strategic IT systems designed to meet specific needs. FCO accounting practice does not make a distinction between expenditure on "information technology" and "web-facing information technology". It is not possible to provide a complete answer without incurring disproportionate cost.
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