Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Imagile Infrastructure Management on the delays to its completion of its planned expansion of Malmesbury Academy; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, has not met Imagile Infrastructure Management on the delays to its completion of its planned expansion of Malmesbury Academy.
The department has not funded the expansion. The expansion has been funded by Wiltshire local authority, using money they have received from Section 106 funding.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what private finance initiative contracts his Department has awarded to Imagile Infrastructure Management in each year for which such information is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department has not awarded any private finance initiative contracts to Imagile Infrastructure Management.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many complaints he has received about delays to private finance initiative contracts administered by Imagile Infrastructure Management in each year for which such information is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department is not aware of any complaints received about delays to private finance contracts administered by Imagile Infrastructure Management.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department takes to ensure that (a) Imagile Infrastructure Management and (b) other private finance initiative providers holding contracts with his Department are held to account for their performance.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Imagile Infrastructure Management does not hold any private finance contracts with this Department. The only private finance contracts entered into by this Department are the five private finance 2 contracts procured under the recent Priority School Building Programme. The Department actively manages and enforces those contracts to hold the providers under those contracts to account for their performance.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to his Department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of his Department that is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to UK SMEs over the past three years. We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers. See table below:
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| Contract Start |
CDW Ltd (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft) | The provision of Cloud Compute Services. Azure Windows Virtual Machines / VMs | 01/07/2017 – 30/06/2018 |
Bytes Software Services (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft Ltd) | Azure hosting | 12/06/2017 – 11/06/2020 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Secure and Private Cloud Compute Services with ancillary requirements for managing infrastructure | 31/07/2015 – 31/07/2017 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Private Cloud Hosting and Cloud migration support - | 31/07/2017 – 31/12/2017 |
The department is not aware of any databases containing citizen data that are stored by its cloud providers in jurisdictions that are subject to information request by US administration bodies.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.
Answered by Anne Milton
The department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to UK SMEs over the past three years. We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers. See table below:
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| Contract Start |
CDW Ltd (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft) | The provision of Cloud Compute Services. Azure Windows Virtual Machines / VMs | 01/07/2017 – 30/06/2018 |
Bytes Software Services (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft Ltd) | Azure hosting | 12/06/2017 – 11/06/2020 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Secure and Private Cloud Compute Services with ancillary requirements for managing infrastructure | 31/07/2015 – 31/07/2017 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Private Cloud Hosting and Cloud migration support - | 31/07/2017 – 31/12/2017 |
The department is not aware of any databases containing citizen data that are stored by its cloud providers in jurisdictions that are subject to information request by US administration bodies.