Cabinet Office: ICT

(asked on 23rd November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on (a) IT infrastructure in total, (b) legacy IT infrastructure and (c) IT infrastructure that was first purchased in 2013 or earlier in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Alex Burghart Portrait
Alex Burghart
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 1st December 2023

(a) As of 21 November 2023, the IT infrastructure spend is £12 million in the last 3 years. The figure includes infrastructure (private/public cloud and data centre) contracts that the Cabinet Office has direct contracts for or with; and excludes Software-as-a-service (SaaS) or Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products and solutions, that the infrastructure is owned by the supplier.

(b) As of 21 November 2023, £2 million has been spent on what is considered as Legacy IT in the last 3 years.

(c) The Cabinet office does not have any IT infrastructure first purchased in 2013 or earlier on record.

The Cabinet Office is actively managing their legacy estates, and is seeking to exit legacy systems via existing or new change plans.

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