ICT Department

Please provide the following current documents covering this financial year and beyond:

ICT Plan or Investment Strategy

We would be grateful if you could provide the following details about your organisation, for clarification please see the italics below

2. Total annual ICT expenditure for 2007/08

3. Annual expenditure on hardware for 2007/08

Annual spend on hardware includes desktop computers, laptop computers, fax machines, printers, servers, LAN switches, keyboards, hard drives, cables etc.

4. Annual expenditure on software for 2007/08

Annual spend on software includes applications software, operating systems software, database software, security and anti-virus software etc.

5. Annual expenditure on telephony for 2007/08

Annual spend on telephony includes call charges, exchange lines, telephone switches and support, telephone handsets, voice and data networks etc

6. Annual expenditure on ICT support services for 2007/08

Annual spend on support services includes IT consultancy, maintenance and support services etc

7. Annual expenditure on outsourced ICT services for 2007/08

Annual spend on outsourcing includes the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within an organisation to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specialises in that operation

8. Total value of ICT assets

9. The number of ICT staff

10. I also require a copy of your annual report.

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Questions 1 and 10

This information is reasonably accessible to you by other means and is therefore exempt under section 21(1) of the Act. Please see the What Our Priorities Are and How We Are Doing page.

Question 2

Total annual ICT expenditure for 2007/08

• 7,107,481 does not include staffing costs
• 9,539,481 with staffing costs at average salary rate on headcount below

Question 3

Annual expenditure on hardware for 2007/08

• 1,158,267 Capital
• 303,176 Departmental Spend
• 1,461,443 Total

Question 4

Annual expenditure on software for 2007/08

• 931,277 Capital
• 75,794 Departmental Spend
• 1,007,071 Total

Question 5

Annual expenditure on telephony for 2007/08

• 1,259,428 Includes Network rental

Question 6

Annual expenditure on ICT support services for 2007/08

• 3,379,539 Total

Question 7

Annual expenditure on outsourced ICT services for 2007/08

• None

Question 8

Total value of ICT assets

• 3,162,416 Total

Question 9

The number of ICT staff

ITS Support Staff 43

ITS Development Staff 33

Total 76