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This report evaluates the current email and document storage, carbon and costs footprints of BCP Councils use of Microsoft 365.

The primary reason for bringing this report is to address the scrutiny request to “establish the current data use and retention polices of the council, and whether there is scope for reduction of the environmental and financial impact of those policies”.

The report outlines three options for consideration: reducing how much data the Council retains in its compliance libraries, transitioning to alternative cloud or on-premises solutions, and completing activity to profile users to enable potential re-mapping to lower costs licence types.