Question follow-through · 129709
Home Office: Global Switch
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office or any of its contractors used Global Switch data centres for the storage or transmission of government data between 2016 and 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office or any of its contractors used Global Switch data centres for the storage or transmission of government data between 2016 and 2026.
29 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2026
Answer published
It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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