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.
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.