Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Democratic Unionist Party

(asked on 10th May 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers and (c) officials of his Department held with representatives of the Democratic Unionist Party prior to the proceedings on the Data Protection Bill [Lords] in the House on 9 May 2018; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 15th May 2018

Ministerial meetings with colleagues/MPs are not normally detailed.

We have amended the Data Protection Bill to place a requirement on the Information Commissioner to conduct a statutory review of the media’s compliance with the new data protection legislation over the next four years. The Commissioner's final report must include specific consideration of the extent of compliance in each part of the United Kingdom. Alongside that review, we propose to have a named person review journalistic compliance with data protection rules in Northern Ireland in four years' time. This approach, details of which will be finalised in due course, reflects the fact that while data protection is reserved, press regulation is devolved

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