Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the volume of UK citizens’ data held by companies (a) supplying cloud services to her Department and (b) contracted to deliver cloud services on behalf of her Department which is subject to information requests from US Government bodies.

We currently store some of our data with cloud services providers using a variety of technologies and services. The complexity and range of services means that we do not explicitly estimate the proportions of citizen-related data that are held. Our cloud services providers meet the requirements of current legislation which, through the EU-US Privacy Shield, imposes obligations on US companies to protect Europeans’ personal data.