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 Lord Livermore (Labour) on Tuesday, 9 December 2025 on behalf of the Treasury.
Internet: Outages
- Question
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To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the economic cost of the outages of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in October.
- Answer
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The Government monitors systemic risks to UK critical national infrastructure, including resilience measures and contingency planning, including cloud providers. The Government recognises the importance of robust protections for the services essential to our society and economy. That is why we introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill on 12 November. The Bill will make sure more types of essential and digital services adhere to robust cyber security practices.
Secondary information
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- Written question
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- HL12400
- Session
- 2024-26
- Subjects
- Costs Internet Microsoft Amazon Web Services Outages
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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