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Digital Service Providers: Competition

Asked by Julia LopezConservativeDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled Answered 2 December 2025UIN 94365

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To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the level of systemic risk from reliance on two dominant cloud providers following recent outages.

Answered by Kanishka Narayan

I refer the honourable member to the answer given on 24 November to UIN 92927. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) continues to monitor systemic risks to UK critical national infrastructure from reliance on cloud providers, including resilience measures and contingency planning following recent service outages.

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