Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of his Department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to (a) hyperscale cloud providers and (b) UK SMEs in each of the last three years; and what the value was of those contracts.

The Department has a number of cloud hosting contracts, which are typically with large scale vendors via framework resellers.

7 contracts have been awarded to (a), comprising 50% of the total such contracts awarded, and with an overall value of £13,770,480.6

9 contracts have been awarded to (b), comprising 64% of the total such contracts awarded, and with an overall value of £7,575,356.06