Question follow-through · 97018
Department of Health and Social Care: Microsoft
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on software licences from Microsoft in the last 12 months; and what proportion this represents of his Department’s total technology spend.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department has spent on software licences from Microsoft in the last 12 months; and what proportion this represents of his Department’s total technology spend.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
For the period 4 December 2024 to 5 December 2025, the Department spent £4.8 million on Microsoft Software licenses and services. During this period this spend accounted for 25.2% of the overall internal technology spend.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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