Question follow-through · 94366

Internet: Outages

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the economy of recent outages of large-scale cloud providers.

answeredTreasury

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Treasury
Tabled
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
1 Dec 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 25 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the cost to the economy of recent outages of large-scale cloud providers.

  2. 1 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the member to the answer given to UIN 92928 on 24 November 2025.

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