James Gray
Conservative, North Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, 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.
James Gray
Conservative, North Wiltshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to his Department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of his Department that is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.
Anne Milton
Minister of State (Education)
The department’s cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to UK SMEs over the past three years. We did not award any contracts to hyperscale cloud providers. See table below:
Contract Start | ||
CDW Ltd (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft) | The provision of Cloud Compute Services. Azure Windows Virtual Machines / VMs | 01/07/2017 – 30/06/2018 |
Bytes Software Services (Reseller on behalf of Microsoft Ltd) | Azure hosting | 12/06/2017 – 11/06/2020 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Secure and Private Cloud Compute Services with ancillary requirements for managing infrastructure | 31/07/2015 – 31/07/2017 |
Eduserv (Eduserv do not hold any data following decommissioning) | IaaS Private Cloud Hosting and Cloud migration support - | 31/07/2017 – 31/12/2017 |
The department is not aware of any databases containing citizen data that are stored by its cloud providers in jurisdictions that are subject to information request by US administration bodies.
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