Parliament: Data Protection

(asked on 19th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are taking to ensure that any attempt by United States authorities to access United Kingdom parliamentary data held on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands will be made on a mutual legal assistance basis.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

Storage of Parliamentary data is a matter for the House authorities. The application of the US's bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) with the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland in regard to data held on Microsoft servers is a matter for those countries.

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