Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much his Department spent on software licences in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018.
The table below sets out the Department’s spend on software licences as follows:
Financial Year | Spend (nearest £000s inc VAT) |
2016/17 | 762 |
2017/18 | 1,102 |
2018/19 | 2,422 |
The increase in 2018/19 is mainly due to the modernisation of key elements of the MHCLG IT services which amounted to £1,322k as part of the roll-out of the IT Modernisation Programme.