Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether the Government Digital Service has made an assessment of the impact on central government services of the disruption to Google Cloud’s europe-west2 region on 20 October 2026.

The Government is aware of the disruption affecting Google Cloud's London-based europe-west2 region on 20 October 2026. The Government Digital Service, the Government Cyber Unit, relevant departments and Google monitored the incident closely and worked together to assess any impacts on public services. While a small number of services experienced disruption, no widespread impacts across central government services were identified. Google has confirmed that affected cloud services have been restored and has published information on the incident and recovery actions.