Home Office: Databases
(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of the Home Office's data is hosted (1) in the UK, and (2) overseas.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 10th May 2018
We currently store some of our data with cloud services providers in the UK and Ireland.
The complexity and range of services means that we do not explicitly estimate the proportions of data hosted in each country, but the vast majority is in the UK, and we are moving the single facility outside of the UK, in Ireland, back to the UK. Our cloud services providers meet the requirements of current legislation.