To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether any of his Department’s (a) computer data and (b) computer backup data are stored with online data storage providers. (108329)

The DTI does not store any data with online storage providers. All data are stored on devices attached to DTI systems that are either located on DTI sites or on sites belonging to our outsourcing partner. These sites are all in the United Kingdom and have been approved as sufficiently secure to hold Government data to restricted level.

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether any of his Department’s (a) computer data and (b) computer backup data are stored outside the United Kingdom. (108333)

No computer data belonging to the DTI are stored outside the United Kingdom. No computer backup data belonging to the DTI are stored outside the United Kingdom.