Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cloud services contracts that were previously delivered by British cloud services providers for the Department for Exiting the European Union are now delivered by multinational cloud service providers; what is the value of those contracts; and what are the names of the previous providers.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The Department for Exiting the European Union’s IT services are managed and hosted by the Cabinet Office. We are therefore unable to comment on the nature, utility or costs of the cloud services provided by the Cabinet Office.
Asked by: Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Department for Exiting the European Union's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.
Answered by Lord Callanan - Shadow Minister (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
All data held by the Department for Exiting the European Union is hosted by the Cabinet Official Platform or SECRET system.
It is estimated that 95% of Cabinet Office OFFICIAL data (a proportion of which is DExEU data) is hosted on cloud services, which distributes encrypted packets of data across data centres in the UK and abroad. The remaining data, as well as that which is SECRET and above, is hosted exclusively in the UK.