Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, 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 Jake Berry
The Department has contracts in place with 2 cloud-hosting provider.
Both of those are hyperscale cloud providers (100 per cent)
One of those is a UK SME (50 per cent)
The spend with the above providers was as follows:
FY 2015 - 2016 £761,903.15 inc VAT
FY 2016 - 2017 £891,843.06 inc VAT
FY 2017 - 2018 £1,486,818.54 inc VAT
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, 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 Marcus Jones
My Department follows guidance issued by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure for establishing secure postal monitoring services. We have had no discussions with the British Forces Postal Office on providing screening mail services.