Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 31018

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft: Data Centres

Tabled: 12 February 2025

Answered: 28 February 2025

Question

Chris Law

Scottish National Party — Dundee Central

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.

Answer

Chris Bryant

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