Amazon lands Government deals worth £200m as Rishi Sunak vows tax blitz on web giants

Tax row internet giant Amazon has landed Government contracts worth more than £200million.

The deals – largely to store digital data – came as Chancellor Rishi Sunak pledged a tax blitz on online firms.

Since December, Amazon Web Services has renewed deals worth £120million with the Home Office and £57million with the Department of Work and Pensions.

Tie-ups with the likes of Public Health England, the Cabinet Office and DVLA are worth another £23million.

Amazon has landed Government deals worth £200m (Getty)

Meanwhile, Amazon’s UK online sales soared £2billion in lockdown and the fortune of owner Jeff Bezos hit a mindblowing £136billion.

Labour ’s Chi Onwurah said of the deals: “It is deeply worrying how dependent we are on the company.”

The Cabinet Office said: “Amazon Web Services is just one of the Government’s thousands of cloud service providers.

"Procurement decisions are always based on value and the best services.”

AWS said the deals benefit an “ecosystem” of smaller UK firms and added: “Public sector organisations use the UK branch of AWS Europe which registers its sales in the UK and pays all taxes.”