You asked

Can you please provide a response to the following:

  1. Can you please tell me what your current digital document storage system is?

  2. Can you please tell me how many files you currently hold on that storage system?

  3. Can you please tell me how much the ONS pays annually to use that storage system?

We said

Thank you for your request.

Please be advised that some of the information that you have requested is not held. Where applicable, alternative information held has been provided to best answer your questions.

There are 3 digital document storage systems:

  1. SharePoint 2013

    The number of files held in SharePoint is not recorded. The storage size for SharePoint is 943GB. The annual cost for SharePoint storage is approximately £20,154.82 under a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.

  2. IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.3FPS

    The number of files held in IBM Lotus Notes is not recorded. The storage size for IBM Lotus Notes is 1990GB. The annual cost for IBM Lotus Notes inclusive of storage is approximately £132,018.51.

  3. Shared Drives

    The number of files held on Shared Drives is not recorded. The annual cost for Shared Drives is not recorded. As our Shared Drives reside across multiple servers the associated storage costs are incorporated into individual server costs.