Written question asked by Lord Clement-Jones (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 27 November 2025, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 11 December 2025. It was answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Labour) on Thursday, 11 December 2025 on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
Digital Service Providers
- Question
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to diversify their cloud service providers following the outages of those services in October.
- Answer
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The Government recognises the importance of resilience in cloud services. Following the outages in October, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology worked with affected providers and the Government Cyber Coordination Centre to assess impacts and strengthen contingency planning. Alongside this, the forthcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will improve resilience standards. In February 2025, DSIT published guidance supporting multi-region cloud adoption to help departments improve resilience. I also refer the Noble Lord to the answer given on 4 November 2025 to Question HL11169.
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- 2024-26
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- Digital service providers
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