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Written Question
Malmesbury School
Wednesday 5th June 2019

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Imagile Infrastructure Management on the delays to its completion of its planned expansion of Malmesbury Academy; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has not met Imagile Infrastructure Management on the delays to its completion of its planned expansion of Malmesbury Academy.

The department has not funded the expansion. The expansion has been funded by Wiltshire local authority, using money they have received from Section 106 funding.


Written Question
Imagile Infrastructure Management
Wednesday 5th June 2019

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what private finance initiative contracts his Department has awarded to Imagile Infrastructure Management in each year for which such information is available.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Department has not awarded any private finance initiative contracts to Imagile Infrastructure Management.


Written Question
Imagile Infrastructure Management
Wednesday 5th June 2019

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints he has received about delays to private finance initiative contracts administered by Imagile Infrastructure Management in each year for which such information is available.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Department is not aware of any complaints received about delays to private finance contracts administered by Imagile Infrastructure Management.


Written Question
Department for Education: Contracts
Wednesday 5th June 2019

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department takes to ensure that (a) Imagile Infrastructure Management and (b) other private finance initiative providers holding contracts with his Department are held to account for their performance.

Answered by Nick Gibb

Imagile Infrastructure Management does not hold any private finance contracts with this Department. The only private finance contracts entered into by this Department are the five private finance 2 contracts procured under the recent Priority School Building Programme. The Department actively manages and enforces those contracts to hold the providers under those contracts to account for their performance.


Written Question
Department for Education: Internet
Friday 9th March 2018

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 Anne Milton

The department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to UK SMEs over the past three years. We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers. See table below:

Contract Start

CDW Ltd (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft)

The provision of Cloud Compute Services. Azure Windows Virtual Machines / VMs

01/07/2017 – 30/06/2018

Bytes Software Services (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft Ltd)

Azure hosting

12/06/2017 – 11/06/2020

Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning)

IaaS Secure and Private Cloud Compute Services with ancillary requirements for managing infrastructure

31/07/2015 – 31/07/2017

Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning)

IaaS Private Cloud Hosting and Cloud migration support -

31/07/2017 – 31/12/2017

The department is not aware of any databases containing citizen data that are stored by its cloud providers in jurisdictions that are subject to information request by US administration bodies.


Written Question
Department for Education: Internet
Friday 9th March 2018

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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 Anne Milton

The department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to UK SMEs over the past three years. We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers. See table below:

Contract Start

CDW Ltd (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft)

The provision of Cloud Compute Services. Azure Windows Virtual Machines / VMs

01/07/2017 – 30/06/2018

Bytes Software Services (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft Ltd)

Azure hosting

12/06/2017 – 11/06/2020

Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning)

IaaS Secure and Private Cloud Compute Services with ancillary requirements for managing infrastructure

31/07/2015 – 31/07/2017

Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning)

IaaS Private Cloud Hosting and Cloud migration support -

31/07/2017 – 31/12/2017

The department is not aware of any databases containing citizen data that are stored by its cloud providers in jurisdictions that are subject to information request by US administration bodies.


Written Question
Department for Education: Postal Services
Tuesday 28th November 2017

Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what security measures her Department has in place relating to the receipt by her Department of incoming post and parcels; and what discussions she has had with the British Forces Postal Office on providing such services.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The department follows guidance issued by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure for establishing secure postal monitoring services. We have had no discussions with the British Forces Postal Office on providing screening mail services.