Transport written question – answered at on 1 November 2010.
Greg Knight
Chair, Procedure Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many applications for the Apple iPhone his Department has commissioned each company to create; and at what cost to the public purse those applications were created.
Norman Baker
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
The only application for the Apple iPhone commissioned by the Department for Transport and agencies is one launched by the Highways Agency in February 2010. It provides traffic information and breaking news alerts, and was developed by the companies Rufus Leonard and AIM at a cost of £29,050.
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