The British cabinet was briefed in September about data.gov.uk's ambition to be a one-stop-shop for data collected by the government.

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Servers often use special virtualized software allowing data from multiple companies to be stored on one server or processor (an analogy would be instead of a cabinet containing files from a single customer, it holds files from numerous clients).

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But what we are doing is going to through a genuine process of listening to the feedback from the consultation exercise, assembling the data and the information, as everyone would expect us to do and I'll make announcements once the cabinet has considered these issues, later on this year and that's the normal orderly process of government, that the SNP government goes through, moving forward.

BBC: John Swinney interview transcript