Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud-hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs; and what the value was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
Answered by Margot James
We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers.
There was no requirement to award UK SMEs cloud hosting contracts in 2015 or 2016. In 2017 we awarded £41,850 to UK SMEs.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to his department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of his Department that is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
Answered by Margot James
DCMS does not centrally collect the specific data requested.
Information regarding contracts above the value of £10,000 is published on Contracts Finder on GOV.UK, available at https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Information Commissioner’s Office also have responsibilities in this area.