Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 119995

Digital Service Providers: Licensing

Tabled: 11 March 2026

Answered: 20 March 2026

Question

Julia Lopez

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of enterprise software licensing practices on the ability of customers to run software across competing cloud platforms on equivalen

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

In July last year, the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) cloud market investigation identified a number of potential competition concerns, including barriers that may limit customer choice and make it harder for businesses to switch or run workloa...

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