were initially said to only be £98,182, which was down hundreds of thousands of pounds compared to the previous two months.

However, Denise McDonagh, director of the G-Cloud programme, revealed on Twitter today:

@kdmcdonagh: #GCloud still without complete set of supplier returns, July figure now £353k. Overall sales to date, £1,532k #CloudStore

The Government Procurement Service is reliant on suppliers signed up to the G-Cloud framework to feed back data on sales each month. The Cabinet Office has said that the deadline for suppliers to provide this information on July's sales was recently extended by a couple of days due to "operational reasons", which is why the figures have suddenly increased.

Computerworld UK asked the Cabinet Office for information on which suppliers had made the additional sales, and to which departments, but was told that the G-Cloud would be updated in due course.