2 per cent of UK companies report problems

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Two percent of UK companies report Y2K problems

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Only two percent of British companies reported problems with the millennium date change last week, the Office for National Statics said on Friday.

A similar survey conducted for the first week of the new year showed showed seven percent of firms had found their business adversely affected.

The ONS said 98 percent of the 1,127 companies it contacted last week reported no problems.

Of the 31 firms that were hit, 13 cited problems with their computer systems while the same amount blamed other factors, particularly low consumer demand.

Hotels and restaurants continued to be most negatively affected.

About one percent of the total said they had laid off staff and only one percent expected any negative impact to last into this week.

On Thursday, senior cabinet minister Margaret Beckett made her last millennium bug statement to parliament, saying: ``I am pleased to confirm that so far -- as predicted -- it is business as usual in the United Kingdom.''

07:50 01-21-00

-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), January 25, 2000

Answers

This conflicts with an NHNE-posted article:

MILLENNIUM BUG BITES ONE IN 14 UK BUSINESSES (7 per cent) Source: The Independent - London Jan 15, 2000

http://cnniw.newsreal.com/cgi-bin/NewsService? osform_template=pages/cnniwSto ry&ID=cnniw&storypath=News/Story_2000_01_17.NRdb@2@9@3@86

ONE IN 14 British businesses - 7 per cent - were hit by the millennium computer bug, the first official Government survey of the problem showed yesterday.

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-- Kenton Johnson (Kenton@CompWellness.com), January 26, 2000.


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