The outgoing cabinet has again declined to say if it is prepared to take action against the takeover of Dutch cloud company Solvinity by an American firm, which would include the transfer of storage facilities for the Digid personal identity system.

On Wednesday MPs again urged the government to take action to halt the sale to American IT giant Kyndryl, but acting economic affairs minister Vincent Karremans repeated his earlier decision to wait for the results of research into the likely impact of the deal.

MPs are worried that US president Donald Trump would be able to use the data to put political pressure on the Netherlands. Under the US Cloud Act, cloud service providers can be required by law to make information available to the US government, even if the storage is located in Europe.

“We are carrying out various research projects at the moment,” caretaker junior minister Eddie van Marum said during the debate. “I am keen to see this done carefully.”

The decision on what to do will be left to the incoming home affairs minister Heleen Herbert who will take office later this month.

MPs are virtually united behind the call to ensure the servers, storage and security for the Digid system and other government departments should remain in Dutch, or at least European, hands.

Solvinity provides secure cloud and data services to a range of government clients, including the digital identification system DigiD, the MijnOverheid portal and the justice ministry. The company was chosen by Amsterdam at the end of last year to help strengthen the city’s “digital autonomy”.