Date received: 18 September 2026

Date responded: 14 October 2026

You asked for information relating to software licences held by the Scottish Commission on Social Security. You asked for:

1. Software asset and contract registers

If Scottish Commission on Social Security maintains any of the following, please provide the current version:

• a software asset register or application register
• an ICT or digital contract register

Please supply these in machine-readable form (Excel) rather than PDF if possible. If any field in a register is exempt, please provide the register with that field removed rather than withholding it in full.

2. Expenditure on named suppliers

For the financial year 2025/26, please state the total expenditure on products and services originating from each of the following:

• (a) Microsoft
• (b) Oracle
• (c) Amazon Web Services

Please include spend made through a reseller, licensing solution provider, systems integrator, managed service provider or public sector framework, as well as any spend made directly with the supplier.

3. Licence and subscription volumes

As at 31 March 2026, please state the number of licences or subscriptions held for each of the following categories:

• Microsoft Windows (desktop and server operating systems)
• Microsoft 365 / Office
• All other Microsoft products (including Dynamics, SQL Server and Azure subscriptions)
• Oracle database products
• Oracle application products
• All other Oracle products

If licences are held under an enterprise agreement or similar arrangement that does not record a per-user count, please say so and give the metric that is used instead.

4. Total software expenditure

For the financial year 2025/26:

• (a) total expenditure on all software licences, subscriptions and cloud services
• (b) a list of every software or cloud supplier on which Scottish Commission on Social Security spent more than £50,000, with the amount spent on each

In response to question 1:

The Scottish Commission on Social Security (SCoSS) does not maintain a software asset register or application register, or an ICT or digital contract register.

In response to question 2:

For the financial year 2025/26, the following amounts were spent on products and services originating from:

1. Microsoft: £0
2. Oracle: £0
3. Amazon Web Services: £1040.65

In response to question 3:

As of 31 March 2026, the number of licences or subscriptions held by SCoSS for each of the following:

• Microsoft Windows (desktop and server operating systems): 0
• Microsoft 365 / Office: 0
• All other Microsoft products (including Dynamics, SQL Server and Azure subscriptions): 0
• Oracle database products: 0
• Oracle application products: 0
• All other Oracle products: 0

In response to question 4:

For the financial year 2025/26:

1040. The total expenditure on all software licences, subscriptions and cloud services was £1040.65.
1041. There were no software or cloud suppliers on which the Scottish Commission on Social Security spent more than £50,000.