Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of which services are operated, whether directly or through third parties, from which servers in which data centres across the government IT estate.

No central assessment has been made of which services and servers are operated from which data centers across the government estate. Whilst we would expect individual organisations to have an understanding of the physical locations that are associated with the running of their digital services to support business continuity planning this is not information that is recorded centrally. In the public cloud the information required by organisations is different and they should understand the cloud regions in which their services are hosted rather than the physical location of servers, especially for modern cloud-native workloads which are abstracted from physical servers.