To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of whether Government Digital Service guidelines on the procurement of cloud services offer similar potential benefits to businesses regardless of size; and if he will make a statement.

Government departments use the G-Cloud framework to procure cloud services. Guidance on the use of this framework, issued jointly by Government Digital Service and Crown Commercial Service, is set out in the G-Cloud buyer’s guide. Our approach is that procurement decisions should be based on the buyer’s service requirements, rather than the size of supplier companies. To date, 57% of total sales by value from all reported G-Cloud sales have been awarded to SMEs.