Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2020 to Question 13561 on fishing catches: computer software, if he will publish a breakdown (a) of the £1.8 million spent on the development and build costs associated with the catch recording app as of 31 October 2019 and (b) of any further costs incurred in connection with the app before or after 31st October 2019 including hosting and managing the data.

The £1.8 million figure relates to costs associated with the contract for the development and build for the catch recording project. Publication of a detailed breakdown would not be appropriate due to commercial sensitivities. Further costs totalling £590,000 have also been incurred to date in connection with development of the application that fall outside of the main developer costs including staff resource, establishment of call centre and other management costs.