Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 128292, on Revenue and Customs: ICT, which contracts the HMRC has let and taken on as part of the Aspire exit; and how the £200 million a year by 2020-21 figure referred to in that Answer was calculated.

Following the Aspire exit HMRC has let contracts in relation to Managed Desktop Service (MDS), Managed Print Service (MPS), Bulk Scanning and Bulk Printing. As part of the phased exit HMRC also entered into new agreements with former Aspire providers and novated over 100 sub-contracts that were previously managed by our suppliers. The savings were calculated through the use of a detailed model taking account of the impacts of all of HMRC’s Aspire exit activities and using a baseline of 2014/15.