Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what is the annual cost to the public purse of her Department's expenditure on (a) IT infrastructure, (b) IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 and (c) legacy IT infrastructure for each year since 2010.

In 2022-23, the previous Department for International Trade spent £9.8m on IT infrastructure.

Information is not available on IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 as this predates the creation of the Department for International Trade in 2016.

Table 1 shows expenditure on legacy infrastructure from 2017/18, the first full year for which information is available.