questionText: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the dependency of government departments and agencies on IT systems provided by (a) Microsoft and (b) Google; and whether the Government is contracted to those suppliers.
answerText: IT procurement is devolved to individual departments, meaning the Government does not hold a single, aggregated dependency assessment. However, to mitigate supply chain risks and avoid single-supplier dependence, we actively work to diversify our technolo...
heading: Government Departments: ICT