Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

‘Many I.T. cloud companies provide a carbon emissions report to their customers for the services they run on their platform. These companies include, but are not limited to—AWS[1] and GCP[2].

For each cloud company you do business with that provides a carbon emissions report, please provide the following—

(a) The name of the cloud company.

(b) The total carbon emissions, broken down per month for the 2024 calendar year.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-customer-carbon-footprint-tool/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/carbon-footprint’

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 5 May 2025.

We have handled your request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR).

Our response

I can confirm that the NHSBSA holds some of the information you have requested.

Oracle

I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that the information you requested is not held by the NHSBSA. The NHSBSA does not receive any carbon emission reports from Oracle Cloud.

AWS

A copy of the information is attached.

Azure

A copy of the information is attached.

Please note, Azure only provides a rolling 12 months of data, so at the time of this request only information from May 2024 onwards is available.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

Reusing the data and copyright

If you plan on producing a press or broadcast story based upon the data, please contact communicationsteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk. This is important to ensure that the figures are not misunderstood or misrepresented.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and is subject to NHSBSA copyright. This information is licenced under the terms of the Open Government Licence detailed at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Should you wish to re-use the information you must include the following statement: “NHSBSA Copyright 2025”. Failure to do so is a breach of the terms of the licence.

Information you receive which is not subject to NHSBSA Copyright continues to be protected by the copyright of the person, or organisation, from which the information originated. Please obtain their permission before reproducing any third party (non NHSBSA Copyright) information.