Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, 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.

It is our policy to award contracts on the basis of value for money, whilst doing everything we can to encourage UK suppliers, and UK SME's in particular, to win business. This is achieved through competitive tender in accordance with public procurement legislation.

The department has seven cloud-hosting contracts, of which five have been awarded to UK SMEs and zero have been awarded to hyperscale providers. The total value of the contracts awarded to SMEs is £162,256.