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843713

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to award cloud hosting contracts only to US hyperscale cloud providers; how many and what proportion of Government cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to hyperscale cloud providers and what the value was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Wiltshire
tabling member printed	James Gray
uin	128074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>It is not government policy to award only to US hyperscale cloud providers. It is our policy to award contracts on the basis of value for money, whilst doing everything we can to encourage UK suppliers, and UK SME's in particular, to win business. This is achieved through competitive tender in accordance with public procurement legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Information on cloud hosting contracts for Government as a whole is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 22/02/2018 16:57:22 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	261 label Biography information for James Gray

843871

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Government digital and technology spending was with large companies in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	128293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Full information on government digital and technology spending with large companies is not held centrally.</p><p>Information on spending through the Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Marketplace can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-marketplace-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-marketplace-sales</a></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/02/2018 17:10:05 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

838984

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of the delayed completion by more than three months of Government IT projects since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	127545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given to PQ127332 on 26<sup>th</sup> February.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 127546 question first answered 21/03/2018 11:36:51 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

838985

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the additional cost to the public purse was of delays of more than three months in the completion of Government IT projects in each Department since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	127546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given to PQ127332 on 26<sup>th</sup> February.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 127545 question first answered 21/03/2018 11:36:51 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

808829

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, what information his Department plans to collect to monitor Departments’ take up of that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>There will be no specific information collected from departments to monitor departments’ take up, as this is a guidance document and has been drafted with the aim of departments learning from each other’s experiences when exiting their major IT contracts by providing case studies and making reference to other useful material, including policy.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 07/03/2018 10:34:36 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

781240

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of removing unpatched, unsupported or out of date software and hardware from government departments and agencies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/11/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold the figures requested. Individual departments are responsible for ensuring their software/hardware is up to date and removing unpatched, unsupported or out of date software and hardware from their departments and agencies.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/11/2017 14:34:51 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

781363

registered interest
date	31/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of savings to the public purse as a result of moving Department's back office servers and ERP systems into shared service centres in each of the last three years; and to which Department's budgets those savings have been accrued.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110707
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not make an estimate of savings to the public purse as a result of moving department's back office servers and ERP systems into shared service centres, so it is not possible to provide an answer to this question.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/11/2017 14:35:54 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

705512

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the capacity for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide cloud services for government departments.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	65754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>This Government is committed to removing all possible barriers to small businesses in our commercial arrangements, and we have set a target of 33% of central government procurement spend going to small and medium businesses by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>We are already exceeding this target in the provision of cloud services. The G-Cloud framework is now in its eighth iteration offering customer access to over 22,000 services and over 2,300 suppliers, of which 89% are small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>Of the £1.8 billion spent to date, 57% is with small businesses; of the £1.4 billion spent by central Government, 57% has been with small and sized businesses.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 02/03/2017 13:23:27 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

705513

registered interest
date	27/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that digital procurement opportunities are available to businesses of all sizes.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	65756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has committed to a challenging target to ensure 33% of its total procurement spend is with small businesses by 2020.</p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to take action to cut out unnecessary bureaucracy in government procurement, simplify documentation and open up more public contracts to small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>In terms of the procurement of digital services, the Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework provides access to over 2,000 suppliers, of which 89% are small businesses. Of the £103 million spent to date, 53% is with small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>The fourth iteration of the Digital Outcomes and Specialist framework, has 2,018 suppliers, of which 89% are SMEs.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 02/03/2017 13:18:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

682934

registered interest
date	01/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government takes to consult professional bodies in the IT industry on ensuring value for money before embarking on large-scale IT projects.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	62786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2017 answer text <p>Cross-government standards exist to ensure best use of taxpayer money on IT projects, including Commercial Operating Standards and Technology Code of Practice. These were both reiterated in light of public consultation which included trade bodies. The use of these standards is assured through the IT and commercial spend controls operated by Cabinet Office.</p><p>The updated Commercial Operating Standards (published on GOV.UK) define how all government departments should operate commercially to ensure strong commercial behaviours and getting value for money. Point 5 of this standard focuses on maximising competition by engaging with the market early, and designing service requirements that are accessible to as many suppliers as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 09/02/2017 13:22:20 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk