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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what impact assessment Department has conducted on the estimated cost to (a) Government Departments, (b) companies, (c) charities, (d) political parties and (e) voluntary organisations of the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation.

In 2012 the Ministry of Justice (which then had policy responsibility for data protection) completed a full impact assessment on GDPR, the results of which are published here: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/data-protection-proposals-cfe/results/eu-data-protection-reg-impact-assessment.pdf.

Further to this initial assessment, Government has undertaken a number of impact assessments on specific areas of data protection policy, but there have not been any completed which would provide an assessment of the overall impact of GDPR on the particular stakeholder groups highlighted in the question.