Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department will work with the Home Office to include proposals for identity verification for the sale of alcohol as part of the proposed Digital Identity Unit.

The government announced the creation of a new Digital Identity Unit, a collaboration between the Cabinet Office and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) on 11 June. The Digital Identity Unit will work closely with other government departments. We will set out the remit of the unit in more detail in the coming weeks. The Home Office will take decisions on areas on which that Department has policy responsibility.