Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 — Parliamentary Bill page
A bill 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 of information.
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Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
Government Bill
Originated in the House of Lords, Session 2024-26
Last updated8 August 2025 at 12:22
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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
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Labour, Life peer
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Peter Kyle
Labour, Hove and Portslade
Current version of the Bill
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18)
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19 June 2025
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