Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Department for Work and Pensions are now delivered by multinational cloud service providers; what is the value of those contracts; and what are the names of the previous providers.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The Department of Work and Pension has not exited any DWP cloud services delivered by British providers.
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Department for Work and Pensions' data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.
Answered by Baroness Buscombe
The breakdown of the Departments data hosting arrangements are (1) 95 per cent UK 2) 5 per cent overseas. The Department's overseas hosting is held within a single location within the EU.
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S by the Department for Work and Pensions in total in each of the years 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14.
Answered by Lord Freud
G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.
The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.
The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.
I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:
2010/11 - £81,433
2011/12 - £17,947,271
2012/13 - £32,123,087
2013/14 - £46,377,724
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S in respect of the Department for Work and Pensions Community Work Placements programme.
Answered by Lord Freud
G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.
The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.
The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.
I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:
2010/11 - £81,433
2011/12 - £17,947,271
2012/13 - £32,123,087
2013/14 - £46,377,724
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what payments have been made to G4S in respect of the Department for Work and Pensions Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service.
Answered by Lord Freud
G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.
The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.
The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.
I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:
2010/11 - £81,433
2011/12 - £17,947,271
2012/13 - £32,123,087
2013/14 - £46,377,724
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether G4S was considered for any work other than call centres associated with Universal Credit; if so, when such consideration ceased; and whether any payments were made to G4S in respect of any such work.
Answered by Lord Freud
G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.
The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.
The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.
I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:
2010/11 - £81,433
2011/12 - £17,947,271
2012/13 - £32,123,087
2013/14 - £46,377,724
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether G4S was considered for the delivery of call centres dealing with enquiries associated with Universal Credit; if so, when such consideration ceased; and whether any payments were made to G4S in respect of any such work.
Answered by Lord Freud
G4S have not been considered for any aspect of the delivery for Universal Credit.
The payments made to G4S in relation to delivery of the Child Maintenance Options Contact Centre service, since the inception of the contract in September 2013 through to 31 October 2014, total £5.707m.
The Department does not publish financial information at provider level for Community Work Placements Programme because in conjunction with performance data it allows the calculation of unit prices which are commercially confidential. Release of this information would reduce the department's ability to gain best value for money in future procurement exercises.
I can confirm that total payments to G4S Group are as follows:
2010/11 - £81,433
2011/12 - £17,947,271
2012/13 - £32,123,087
2013/14 - £46,377,724