Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent discussions he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and (b) the European Commission on ensuring the free movement of data between the UK and EU nations after the UK leaves the EU.

Ministers have had regular discussions with their colleagues across the government, and with their EU counterparts on this issue.

In those discussions, we have emphasised the Government’s position that it is essential that we agree a UK-EU model for protecting and exchanging personal data which allows free flows of data to continue between the EU and UK. A future agreement could provide for ongoing regulatory cooperation and certainty for businesses and other stakeholders. Such a model should reflect the unprecedented alignment between British and European law and recognise the high data protection standards that will be in place at the point of exit.