Question follow-through · 21954
Parliamentary Digital Service: Digital Service Providers
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether cloud services used by the Parliamentary Digital Service make use of data centres outside of the United Kingdom.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- House of Commons Commission
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 11 Sept 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether cloud services used by the Parliamentary Digital Service make use of data centres outside of the United Kingdom.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Sept 2026
Answer published
Yes. A small number of cloud services used by the Parliamentary Digital Service make use of data centres outside the United Kingdom.Parliament’s policy is to host and process its data in the United Kingdom wherever practicable. Where a provider does not o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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