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date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Outages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contingency plans the Cabinet Office has in place in the event of a high-volume of users causing a slow-down or failure of the gov.uk website.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	40105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Since its launch in October 2012, GOV.UK has handled over 2.6 billion visits. The site needs to continue operating during major events. The <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website has been designed to handle issues and failures in a way which would not impact the public. We have robust incident management processes in place and regularly run disaster recovery simulations to test our response to any outages.</p><p>When outages do occur, we investigate and learn lessons on how to mitigate them in future.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 40091 question first answered 14/06/2016 08:54:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524199

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Outages
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contingency plans his Department has in place in the event of a failure of all or part of the gov.uk website.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	40091
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Since its launch in October 2012, GOV.UK has handled over 2.6 billion visits. The site needs to continue operating during major events. The <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website has been designed to handle issues and failures in a way which would not impact the public. We have robust incident management processes in place and regularly run disaster recovery simulations to test our response to any outages.</p><p>When outages do occur, we investigate and learn lessons on how to mitigate them in future.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 40105 question first answered 14/06/2016 08:54:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh