Question follow-through · 10437
Oracle Corporation UK: Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has conducted a legal assessment of the interaction between the US CLOUD Act and the use of Oracle’s UK Sovereign Cloud for public sector data.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Government has conducted a legal assessment of the interaction between the US CLOUD Act and the use of Oracle’s UK Sovereign Cloud for public sector data.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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24 Jun 2026
Answer published
Where cloud service providers may be subject to overseas legal obligations, including the United States CLOUD Act, departments are responsible as data controllers to assess and mitigate the associated risks.The UK has an adequacy decision for certain tran...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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