This was a lords amendment on the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 creates a broad framework for how businesses, public bodies and other organisations can access and use data, with new governance, transparency and enforcement powers. It overhauls data protection rules, introduces a new Information Commission to replace the ICO, and adds major new elements such as a Digital Verification Services system and a National Underground Asset Register, while extending certain powers to crown dependencies and Channel Islands. The policy debates across the Lords and Commons focused on AI training-data transparency, copyright information, and safeguards for children and researchers, with cross‑border extensions and workplace data access provisions also in play.
•Creates a broad data-use framework with dashboards, authorisation mechanisms, and enforcement, plus the Digital Verification Services (DVS) system and a National Underground Asset Register (NUAR).
•Puts forward AI data-transparency ideas (publishing AI training inputs and copyright usage) and data-provenance concepts, debated heavily between Lords and Commons, with amendments proposed about enforcement, small-firm exemptions, and pre-legislative scrutiny.
•Strengthens protections for children in data processing and adds a public-interest test for scientific-research data reuse under GDPR, as part of ongoing alignment with data privacy safeguards.
•Extends certain provisions to Crown dependencies and Channel Islands (Guernsey, Isle of Man, etc.) and sets conditions for Welsh/Northern Ireland input into NUAR regulations, broadening geographic reach and governance.
