Written Question
Monday 5th March 2018
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 which is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
Answered by Alan Duncan
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not currently process any UK citizen data via cloud services. Any cloud services used in the future will meet the requirements of the new Data Protection Legislation expected in May 2018 and will follow Cabinet Office and Information Commissioner's Office guidance on the procurement of Cloud Services.
Written Question
Thursday 1st March 2018
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 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 Alan Duncan
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has placed one contract with UK Cloud Ltd, who are considered an SME. The FCO have zero Hyperscale contracts.
The FCO Overall expenditure the last three Financial years is as follows:
FY 14/15: £36,863
FY 15-16: £152,093
FY 16-17: £231,012
Written Question
Thursday 21st December 2017
Asked by:
James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has received from Arctic Indigenous peoples on his proposed revised Arctic Policy Framework.
Answered by Alan Duncan
The Government works in conjunction with Arctic Indigenous peoples towards a safe and secure Arctic, including through the Arctic Council. Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials recently heard the concerns of some of the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples at the “Arctic Voices” event hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions. The UK remains of the view that only responsible development should take place in the Arctic region.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Blue Belt Programme: Marine Protected Areas
"I beg to move,
That this House has considered the Blue Belt programme for marine protection.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. You and I share a birthday, 7 November, although we were not born in the same year. Thank you for undertaking to chair …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Blue Belt Programme: Marine Protected Areas
"I will be glad to do so. I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for bringing the group to my notice, although I do have one caveat, which I will come to later.
The important point about Brexit is that it must not mean a lessening of any of …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Blue Belt Programme: Marine Protected Areas
"I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing that to my notice. In his short time in the House so far, he has been assiduous in championing the interests of the oceans off his own constituency and elsewhere around the world. I am most grateful to him for …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Blue Belt Programme: Marine Protected Areas
"That is a matter that needs to be discussed, and it will be interesting to hear how the Minister responds to that point later in the debate. Of course it would be possible for the two fishery vessels to continue to do their scientific research there at the same time …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 19 Dec 2017
Blue Belt Programme: Marine Protected Areas
"My right hon. Friend, who knows a great deal about these matters, makes two points. One is that there will be some interference with the krill fishing, which has not actually occurred for many years. That is not one of our concerns: there is no such fishing, therefore it is …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 29 Nov 2017
Arctic Ambassador: Appointment
"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks about the APPG on polar regions, which I have the great honour of chairing. It covers both polar regions—the Antarctic and the Arctic—so will he explain why this debate is about an ambassador only to the Arctic? Surely, if …..."James Gray - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 29 Nov 2017
Arctic Ambassador: Appointment
"The hon. Gentleman is generous in giving way. I, too, am a Scot, and of course Scotland has a great deal to offer both the north and the south and elsewhere. I am puzzled, however, by his logic as to why Scotland having nice scenery should somehow or other lead …..."James Gray - View Speech
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