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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals on the role of data intermediaries to provide citizens with a means to gather copies of their own data produced by the digital products and services that they use.

In November 2021 the government published the National Data Strategy Mission 1 Policy Framework which outlines our intention to develop a thriving data intermediary ecosystem. We recently consulted on whether the government should enable data intermediaries as part of the Data: A New Direction consultation. The Government is considering responses to this consultation and will publish its conclusions in due course.