Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list the countries currently hosting cloud-based data as contracted by his Department.

The Department's procurement system does not have a separate category for cloud-hosting contracts nor any central means of consistently identifying the countries in which data is held.

However, where the Department has entered hosting arrangements, let by the Department’s Technology Service, we have verified that Departmental data is held in the following countries:

- United Kingdom;

- Republic of Ireland;

- Netherlands; and

- United States of America.