A Bill to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision for the implementation of agreements on sharing information for law enforcement purposes; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about oversight of biometric data; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
5 May 2023
This bill sets out new rules for how information about living people can be processed, including privacy, consent, and biometric data. It also covers how information can be shared for public services and for law enforcement, the use of electronic signatures and other trust services, and standards for health and social care data. It would establish a single Information Commissioner to oversee compliance.
The bill is at the first reading in the House of Commons. It will progress through committee, report, and further readings before becoming law.
In the recorded votes, the Third Reading passed 269 Aye to 31 No. Amendments were mostly defeated, with New Schedule 1 approved 274 Aye to 52 No; other amendments such as Amendments 218, 1, 5, 11, and 224 were defeated by large margins.
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This Bill was withdrawn by the Government on 8 March 2023 when a new Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill was introduced.