Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the value of her Department's cloud-hosting contracts with (a) Amazon Web Services, (b) Oracle Fusion, (c) Microsoft Azure, (d) Vodafone, (e) DXC, (f) SCC and (g) UKCloud was in financial years (i) 2012-2013, (ii) 2013-2014, (iii) 2014-2015, (iv) 2015-2016 and (v) 2016-2017.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The table below shows current spending and the dates covered for each line of information. Unfortunately the information is not available in the exact format requested. Prior to 2016 there was no spend on cloud hosting with the companies mentioned in the question.
Oracle Fusion, SCC and Vodafone were all nil spend. DWP does not have cloud hosting contracts with those companies.
| Description | Dates covered | Spend |
Amazon Web Services | G-Cloud 6 – IaaS (Information as a Service) | 10/6/16 to 09/06/18 | c£1.0m |
G-Cloud 7 – Professional Services | 10/06/16 to 09/06/18 | £1.2m | |
G-Cloud 8 – Hosting | 01/06/17 to 31/05-18 | c£1.0m | |
G-Cloud 9 – Cloud compute | 01/08/17 to 31/07/19 | £3.9m | |
Microsoft Azure | Server Cloud Enrolment (SCE) agreement | 01/01/17 to 31/12/19 | £40k |
DXC | G-Cloud 7 - MVS Mainframe platform as a Service hosting | 12/12/16 to 31/12/17 | £12m |
G-Cloud 8 - VME mainframe platform as a service hosting | 01/05/17 to 31/12/17 | £5m | |
G-Cloud 7 - x86 midrange platform as a service hosting | 01/05/17 to 31/12/17 | £4m | |
UK Cloud | G-Cloud 8 – Hosting | 15/07/16 to 31/08/17 | £3.0m |
G-Cloud 9 – Hosting | 01/09/17 to 31/12/17 | £0.63m | |
G-Cloud 8 – Children, Health and Pensions Systems | 16/04/17 to 15/04/18 | £0.8m | |
CAN001 – Date extension to G9 Hosting | 01/01/18 to 01/06/18 | Nil spend |
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of her 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 Kit Malthouse
DWP does not centrally collect the specific data requested.
Information regarding contracts above the value of £10,000 is published on Contracts Finder on GOV.UK, available at https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
The Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Information Commissioner’s Office also have responsibilities in this area.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to her Department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of her Department that is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.