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

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in ensuring that charities are well informed about the requirements of guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office on data sharing.

The ICO has met with the new Fundraising regulator and the Charity Commission, where the guidance on direct marketing has been discussed and promoted. A Memorandum of Understanding between the Information Commissioner's Office and the Fundraising Regulator has been recently agreed. The ICO have also spoken at a number of conferences for the third sector to promote the guidance.