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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft: Data Centres

Asked by Chris LawScottish National PartyDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 28 February 2025UIN 31018

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department supervises data stored by (a) Amazon AWS and (b) Microsoft Azure at data centres located on UK territory.

Answered by Chris Bryant

DSIT does not directly supervise the storage of data in specific UK data centres by specific companies.

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