Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 of those contracts was in each of the last three years.
Answered by George Eustice
a) Core Defra currently has two direct contracts with ‘public cloud-hosting’ providers:
The expenditure is as follows:
b) None
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that no decision will be taken on Marine Aggregate Dredging Application MLA/2016/00227, South Goodwin Sands, Area 521 by the Marine Management Organisation until the Secretary of State for Defence has come to a decision to designate the area under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 and the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a determination on whether to designate the Goodwin Sands as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (PMRA 1986) on 2 June 2017. The MoD determined that due to the size and dimensions of a controlled site it would prevent any whole scale designation of the area of the Goodwin Sands.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will ensure that no decision will be taken on Marine Aggregate Dredging Application MLA/2016/00227, South Goodwin Sands, Area 521 by the Marine Management Organisation until the Secretary of State for Defence has come to a decision on the application made by Marinet Ltd on 22 February 2017, to designate all or part of area 521 as a controlled area under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.
Answered by Thérèse Coffey
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a determination on whether to designate the Goodwin Sands as a controlled site under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 (PMRA 1986) on 2 June 2017. The MoD determined that due to the size and dimensions of a controlled site it would prevent any whole scale designation of the area of the Goodwin Sands.