Question follow-through · 120578
Digital Service Providers: Infrastructure
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of levels of competition in the UK cloud infrastructure market; and what implications that assessment has for investment in UK cloud and AI infra
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of levels of competition in the UK cloud infrastructure market; and what implications that assessment has for investment in UK cloud and AI infra
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Government prioritised the commencement of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) new powers in digital markets last year to boost competition and fairness in the digital tech sector. Although the CMA operates independently of Government, the G...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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