Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch on 20 May (HL7143), how much they spent in total each year since 2019–20 on (1) digital systems delivered from public cloud, and (2) the entire digital systems estate.

The historical data requested is not held centrally, however the State of Digital Government report, published in January 2025, confirms that the UK public sector spends over £26bn annually on digital technology. Additionally, GDS is currently working with public sector organisations to understand their annual spend on public cloud services.