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Written Question
Wales Office: Internet
Tuesday 15th May 2018

Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Wales Office 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 Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

The Wales Office does not have any cloud service contracts with either British or multinational cloud service providers.

Written Question
Wales Office: Databases
Tuesday 8th May 2018

Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Wales Office's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.

Answered by Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

Wales Office data is hosted on the Ministry of Justice systems. The Ministry of Justice estimate that 90% of the data held is hosted in the UK and the remaining 10% overseas. Wales Office data cannot be disaggregated within this estimate. No standard methodology exists for calculating this figure, and as such a significant margin of error can be assumed.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 01 Feb 2018
Rough Sleeping

"My Lords, the Minister told us proudly that the Government have set themselves the target of halving the number of rough sleepers by 2022. That would bring it back down to the number they inherited from the Labour Government in 2010. Whose fault is the doubling in the number of …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 08 Mar 2017
Surrey County Council: Financial Issues

"My Lords, the question has to be answered. Either the leader of Surrey County Council was lying or he completely misunderstood his conversations with the Secretary of State and all those others to whom he spoke. Therefore, the Government are suggesting either one or the other. I am sure that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2016
Directly Elected Mayors

"My Lords, I think I am probably more of an enthusiast for directly elected mayors than my noble friend Lord Grocott. However, the significant point is that in London, where there is a very successful mayoralty, the local people voted in a referendum to have such a system. Given that …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 03 Nov 2015
Electricity System Resilience (S&T Committee Report)

"My Lords, I declare an interest regarding the work that I am currently doing with the Electric Infrastructure Security Council. I congratulate the noble Earl, Lord Selborne, and the Science and Technology Committee on producing an interesting and extremely important report. The report is interesting for me because when I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"My Lords, my noble friend Lord Wills has done the Committee an enormous service by presenting this amendment today, because it has enabled those of us who have engaged with the debate at least to consider the conspiracy not to talk about certain matters that really needed to be resolved …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"I am merely saying that some people—the noble Lord, Lord Rennard, is clearly one of them—believe that there is such a conspiracy. I can assert that I am not part of any such conspiracy, if one even exists. I wanted to speak today specifically because of the importance of considering …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"No, my Lords, I am suggesting that the noble Lord no doubt had to work 50 per cent harder to deliver the service that he regarded was appropriate at the beginning of his time in the other place. That is fine, but we ought to—..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 10 Jan 2011
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

"The case that I am making is that we have to define the appropriate numerical relationship between the electorate and the Member of Parliament. If you want to go down the route of equalisation, you should first define what the appropriate ratio is. If you do not know that, the …..."
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