Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 Rory Stewart
The Ministry of Justice does not centrally collect the specific data requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Where personal data is held or processed in cloud services, the risks associated with this are assessed (including the potential for foreign state information requests to the provider) and managed appropriately.
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 Rory Stewart
The MOJ has interpreted the definition of Hyperscale Cloud providers to mean larger suppliers of Cloud Hosting.
The Ministry of Justice has awarded 32 Cloud Hosting contracts covering the period from June 2015. Of these 10 were awarded to larger Cloud Hosting providers and the remaining 22 to UK based SME’s.
Of the 10 contracts awarded to larger Cloud Hosting providers the value since June 2015 are as follows:
2015/2016 | 2016/17 | 2017/2018 |
£6,422,253.99 | £6,010,672.41 | £7,754,348.05 |
The breakdown of the spend to UK Based SME’s is
2015/2016 | 2016/17 | 2017/2018 |
£2,426,214.50 | £8,601,130.55 | £11,778,514.34 |
Asked by: James Gray (Conservative - North Wiltshire)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, 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 Phillip Lee
The department follows the guidance issued by the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) for establishing secure postal monitoring services. We have had no discussions with the British Forces Postal Office on providing screening mail services.
Guidance for prisons on the handling for prisoners’ correspondence is contained in PSI 2011-49 - Prisoner Communication Services.