Asked by: Sarah Edwards (Labour - Tamworth)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government paid Microsoft for digital services for the last 12 months for which data is available.
Answered by Georgia Gould - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
Full information on government spend with Microsoft is not held centrally by the Cabinet Office (CO), as individual departments and public bodies are responsible for their own procurement and contractual arrangements.
However, the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), an executive agency of the Cabinet Office, manages the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft.
Through SPA24, approximately £1.9 billion has been spent on Microsoft software licences via third-party resellers in the financial year 2024/25. SPA24 enables all eligible UK public sector organisations to access discounted pricing on a range of Microsoft products.