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.

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