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Scottish Parliament Suspends All Voting over Microsoft Outage
Voting on nearly 400 amendments to the Land Reform Bill was paused due to a global Microsoft outage affecting key services, MSPs were told by the Presiding Officer.
- On Wednesday, the Scottish Parliament suspended voting after Alison Johnstone, Presiding Officer, said a significant Microsoft outage left MSPs unable to vote.
- Microsoft said it is working to address an Azure Front Door issue affecting some services and is investigating impacts on Outlook and Teams.
- MSPs were in the second of two marathon sessions on the Land Reform Bill and had been debating for around half an hour before issues arose just before 4.30pm.
- The Parliamentary Bureau met and agreed to suspend voting for the session, delaying further business, and Alison Johnstone, Presiding Officer, said she would update the chamber at 7pm with a view to resuming business.
- Downdetector showed spikes across banks, retailers and gaming services, reporting significant outages at Royal Bank of Scotland, BT, Asda, and thousands of issues with Xbox, Minecraft, Azure, plus Heathrow.
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Scottish Parliament suspends all voting over Microsoft outage
MSPs were set to debate and vote on hundreds of amendments to legislation on Wednesday evening.
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Scottish Parliament suspends voting over Microsoft outage
Holyrood’s Presiding Officer told MSPs technical issues impacting the voting system meant proceedings will be delayed. Voting has been suspended at the Scottish Parliament following a “significant Microsoft outage”. Holyrood’s Presiding Officer said technical issues meant MSPs were unable to vote. The Downdetector website has reported significant spikes in outages impacting the Royal Bank of Scotland, BT and Asda. It also reported thousands of i…
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