Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the likelihood of software as a service being a leading technology in 15 years time.

The Government does not plan to make a specific assessment of the long-term prospects of individual commercial models such as software as a service. The Department monitors developments in software and AI markets through existing horizon-scanning work, including the Government Office for Science's emerging technology programme.