Lead member
Lord Clement-Jones
Liberal Democrat, Life peer
Lords
Decision
Not moved
The amendment was not moved. The House was not invited to take a decision on it (though it may have been debated with other amendments).
Amendment text
After Clause 142
insert the following new Clause—
“Open address file
(1)
The Secretary of State must regularly publish a list of UK addresses as open data to an approved data standard.
(2)
“Regularly publish” means on at least a monthly basis.
(3)
“UK addresses” means an authoritative list of UK address data as maintained by local authorities including, but not limited to —
(a)
building number, name and street address,
(b)
geographic coordinates, and
(c)
a unique identifier.
(4)
“Open data” means data under a licence whereby any person can freely access, use, modify, and share the data for any purpose, subject, at most, to requirements that preserve provenance and openness.
(5)
“Approved data standard” means such written standards, containing technical specifications or other requirements in relation to the data, or in relation to providing or processing the data, as may be published by an appropriate authority from time to time.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would require a list of UK addresses to be made freely available for reuse.