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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which data rights will be clarified by the Data Reform Bill, as announced in the Queen's Speech 2022.

Now that we have left the EU, we have an opportunity to simplify the clunky parts of GDPR and create a world class data rights framework that will allow us to realise the benefits of data use while maintaining the UK’s high data protection standards.

The bill will contain measures from the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation document, and we will publish our response shortly. The bill will also make good on the government’s commitment to legislate for other policies in similar subject areas, such as increasing industry participation in Smart Data schemes and enabling digital identity-verification services.