Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2017 to Question 107778, how much his Department spent on software licences for e-claims for (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.
Departmental records show the following expenditure by financial year on software licenses specifically for E-Claims:
Financial Year | Spend (inc VAT) |
2014-15 | £0 |
2015-16 | £271,200 |
2016-17 | £43,560 |
The E-Claims service is a management and control system for the delivery of programmes to meet European Commission guidelines. The public facing component of the service allows users to apply for European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) or European Social Fund (ESF) money.