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<p>The House service approved the business case for a project to significantly improve
Wi-Fi services across the estate in December 2022.</p><p>The Wi-Fi project will replace
end-of-life hardware and upgrade services, to provide a seamless, simpler and better
managed user experience for Members and staff, particularly for personal mobile devices
in the form of a new Members and Staff Wi-Fi service and Guest Wi-Fi replacement for
Internet Direct. This is supported by additional security and roaming service improvements,
while also reducing operational overheads. Cost efficiencies are being gained by delivering
this work alongside the Emergency Services Network project.</p><p>Improvements will
take place across the Parliamentary Estate, prioritising Member facing areas and key
areas of procedural and parliamentary business.</p><p>A breakdown of the costs per
building is listed in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Building</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Palace
of Westminster</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Millbank House</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>14
Tothill Street</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>6/7 Old Palace Yard</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Education
Centre</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Estates
Cost</strong></p></td><td><p>£22m</p></td><td><p>£2m</p></td><td><p>£1.8m</p></td><td><p>£0.4m</p></td><td><p>£0.7m</p></td><td><p><strong>£27m</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>While
Parlimentary Digital Service (PDS) are actively managing WI-FI provisions for all
parliamentary buildings, any buildings not listed in the table above do not require
the same interventions and as such are outside of the scope of this main Wi-Fi Project,
with any issues tackled on a case-by-case basis.</p><p>The estimated cost including
the whole life cost of the Wi-Fi upgrades being made across the Parliamentary estate
by the Network and Wireless Project as of 14 July 2023 is listed in the table attached.</p><p>To
date the project spend is £4.8m in project delivery (including some PDS costs from
FY23/24), operational costs and depreciation. Risk and optimism bias costs are not
included as they have not been spent.</p>
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