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Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

Government Bill

Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2024-25

Last updated: 13 February 2025 at 16:41

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Long title

A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.

Sponsoring departments

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Peter Kyle
Labour, Hove and Portslade

Current version of the Bill

Bill 179 2024-25 (as brought from the Lords)
6 February 2025
Commons

Bill passage

Bill started in the House of Lords
1st reading
2nd reading
Committee stage
Report stage
3rd reading
Bill in the House of Commons
1st reading
2nd reading
Report stage
3rd reading
Final stages
Consideration of amendments
Royal Assent
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