Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, 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 was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade was formed in July 2016. In 2016 one contract was awarded to a UK small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) for cloud hosting. In 2017 one contract was awarded to a UK SME and one contract was awarded to a hyperscale cloud provider for cloud hosting. These proportions are shown in the table below.
The value and proportion of these contracts by value of UK SME and hyper scale provider is as follows:
Hosting only | Actual |
2016 | £50,000 |
2017 | £408,926 |
Total cloud hosting | £458,926 |
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2016 | £50,000 |
2017 | £8,926 |
SME cloud hosting | £58,926 |
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2016 | 100.0% |
2017 | 2.2% |
% SME | 12.8% |
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what security measures his Department has in place relating to the receipt by his Department of incoming post and parcels; and what discussions he has had with the British Forces Postal Office on providing such services.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department of International Trade (DIT) follows government security standards relating to the receipt of incoming post and parcels, as laid out under the HMG Security Policy Framework and as appropriate for each DIT location. DIT has not had discussions with the British Forces Post Office on this matter.