Department for Communities and Local Government: Computer Software

(asked on 16th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on software licences in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.


Answered by
Marcus Jones Portrait
Marcus Jones
Treasurer of HM Household (Deputy Chief Whip, House of Commons)
This question was answered on 24th October 2017

Departmental records show the following expenditure by financial years on software licenses:

Financial year

Spend (inc VAT)

2014-15

£230,000

2015-16

£306,000

2016-17

£762,000

There has been significant investment in software licenses associated with the development of major business applications, in particular:

  • E-Claims, which supports the administration of the European Regional Development fund and European Social Fund

  • DELTA, which rationalises the Department’s key data collection and grant administration systems

  • CORE, which collects social housing sales and lettings data

  • Troubled Families (TFAM), which supports a key DCLG policy helping over 400,000 families

  • Fair Chance Fund (FCF), which supports a £15 million programme to move the hardest to help homeless people off the streets and into employment where possible.

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