Q111 Mr Bacon: But you are not going to maintain it.
Mr Racine: It is not part of our contract.
Q112 Mr Bacon: Is this part of a wider investment in IT in the Home Office? If so, what is the total cost?
Mr Gieve: We have a 12-year contract with a consortium called Sirius which provides our IT. We expect Sirius to maintain and move the IT from our existing building into the new building, although we have not yet completed those contractual negotiations. It will be part of a wider one. As to the full cost of the Sirius programme
Ms Aldred: I do not know that because it has changed and it depends on how many people use it and the services.
Q113 Mr Bacon: A ballpark figure.
Ms Aldred: I do not have a ballpark figure.
Mr Gieve: Sirius supply us not just in London but in all the ports and Croydon, Liverpool and so on. We will give you a figure.16
Q114 Mr Bacon: How much is the cost of the IT infrastructure as part of this building which is being installed by Bouygues?
Mr Gieve: The £2.35 million is the cost we have agreed for installing the cabling and the patch management of the system.17
Q115 Mr Bacon: The total is £2.35 million.
Mr Gieve: Yes. That does not include the cost of all the boxes.
Q116 Mr Bacon: Are they installing that as well?
Mr Gieve: They are installing the cabling and the system for managing the cabling, but the actual boxes will come from someone else.
Q117 Mr Bacon: What I am really asking is: what is the total cost for what they are doing?
Mr Gieve: It is £2.35 million.
Q118 Mr Bacon: That is the cabling and the systems.
Mr Gieve: That is the cabling.
Q119 Mr Bacon: You just said the cabling and the system for managing the cabling.
Mr Gieve: I was referring to something I do not understand called the patch management system, which allows us to vary the cabling and the positioning of the boxes later on. Broadly, this is the cabling system that they are installing in the building.
Q120 Jim Sheridan: Back to the question about the site of the separate residential and commercial development. Just to clarify. When I asked the question, I think you said they would be the responsibility of a housing association. I also asked who, if anyone, would be living in the houses? What I really want to know is whether it will be civil servants, senior or otherwise, who will be living in these houses, or will they be open to the general public?
Mr Gieve: It is a mixture of private sector and low cost housing and full market rents and low cost housing. Civil servants will be able to apply like anyone else, but we are not reserving any of this for the Home Office.