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date	17/12/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: Luton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what public engagement exercises her Department has undertaken in Luton on the Prevent Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	131489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2021 answer text <p>The Prevent programme is fundamentally about safeguarding and supporting vulnerable individuals to stop them from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. It works best when it is locally-led and delivered in partnership with communities. As part of the Prevent Duty, Local Authorities have an obligation to deliver a programme of engagement tailored to the needs of the local community. The Home Office supports areas with engagement to increase transparency and communicate proactively about Prevent delivery in the local area. The Home Office has previously engaged with Luton Council's Elected Members Prevent Engagement Group on the Prevent Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 11/01/2021 09:05:35 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1180980

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Amazon Web Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) efficiency and (b) effectiveness of using Amazon Web Services as a public cloud hosting service.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	21394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Home Office recently completed a procurement for “Continuity Cloud Services”. We assessed a wide number of Cloud Service Providers available on G-Cloud 11.</p><p>This was awarded to Amazon Web Services via G-Cloud 11 on the basis of best technical fit for existing Home Office requirements and met all of our ‘must have’ requirements.The procurement has enabled the Home Office to take advantage of discounts and savings opportunities available on G-Cloud 11.</p><p>Under this new contract we are already on track to save 28% or over £6m over the next 12 months on our cloud spend with Amazon Web Services compared to what we would have spent if we had extended our previous contract based on old terms. The Home Office follows best practice for Cost Efficiency, we continually review our cloud spend to ensure that we are getting best value for money.</p><p>We take regular action to ensure that our usage is optimised, and we receive regular support from AWS via their Enterprise Support Programme. The Home Office is looking to achieve further efficiencies on cloud services by contracting with a wider number of cloud service providers in the future.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/03/2020 16:49:07 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen

1180983

registered interest
date	26/02/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Amazon Web Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data Amazon Web Services has access to as the public cloud host for her Department.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Sarah Owen
uin	21395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>Amazon Web Services have publicly available policies and statements on access to customer data, which broadly state that they do not access data available within AWS accounts without receiving consent from the account holder. In line with wider government policy we follow the NCSC’s ‘Cloud Security Principles’ &amp; ‘Standard Architecture for UK-Official on AWS’.</p><p>The Home Office has policies in place to ensure that our data is protected when it is hosted with Public Cloud Service Providers and we have full control of access to our accounts and data within them. Specifically, our policy is to mandate that all data is encrypted during transit and at rest, this means that if data is accessed by a third party from outside of the Home Office it is protected.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 02/03/2020 16:50:10 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4777 label Biography information for Sarah Owen