Question follow-through · 94364
Digital Service Providers: Competition
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help ease restrictive licensing practices in relation to software by large cloud providers to ensure that there is fair and open competition in the sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help ease restrictive licensing practices in relation to software by large cloud providers to ensure that there is fair and open competition in the sector.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to supporting a competitive and innovative digital economy. This is why we prioritised the commencement and implementation of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (the CMA) new powers in digital markets. The CMA is independe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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