Briefing on the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024

25 November 2024

Linklaters, London

Overview

How will the Bill impact the way you process personal data?

Date: Monday 25 November 2025
Times: 09.30 to 15.00 GMT
Location: Linklaters, London
Type: In-person and Online
CPE Credits: up to 4

Video and Slides

Come and meet the government’s DSIT/DBT policy team who drafted the Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024. They will help you understand the Bill designed to complement the Data Protection Act and UK GDPR 2018. The Bill has been drafted to stimulate the economy with many horizontal and sectoral provisions providing new data opportunities for all sectors.

Key questions include:

  1. How does the Bill fit into the new government’s economic strategy?
  2. What in the Bill is the same as the current data protection legislation?
  3. Which provisions in the Bill represent a change compared with the current data protection and related legislation?

The strategy

The Data (Use and Access) Bill fits into the new government’s economic strategy and can be understood from the missions of the two government departments most directly involved in drafting the Bill:

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT): “Accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, ensure that new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK and drive forward a modern digital government for the benefit of its citizens.”
  • Department for Business and Trade (DBT): “We are the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.”

The Bill’s impact on your organization

The Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024 was introduced into Parliament on 23 October and will have its 2nd reading in the House of Lords on 19th November. It covers several subjects related to the regulation of personal data, several of which are not addressed in the current Data Protection Act 2018 nor the UK GDPR.

Attending this Briefing, you will learn how the Bill’s coverage of many issues will have an impact on the way the business and the public sectors will be able to process personal data, including:

  1. Access to customer data and business data
  2. Services which use information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals
  3. Regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals
  4. Privacy and electronic communications
  5. The transition from the Information Commissioner to the Information Commission
  6. Information standards for health and social care
  7. The grant of smart meter communication licences
  8. Providing information for independent research into online safety matters
  9. Retention of biometric data
  10. Services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services

Speakers

  • Owen Rowland, Deputy Director, Head of Data Protection Policy, DSIT
  • Robin Edwards, Policy Team Leader, Data Protection Policy, DSIT
  • Devon Troup, Head of Legislation, Digital Verification Services, Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, DSIT
  • Oliver Stanley, Smart Data Legislation Lead, Consumer and Competition Policy, DBT
  • Samuel Smyth Murray, Principal Policy Advisor - Data Protection, Legislative Reform Team, ICO
  • Seema Mistry, Head of Legislative Reform, ICO

Programme

Time Session
09.30 Registration
09.55

Introductions
10.00

Briefing on the Data (Use and Access) Bill by DSIT/DBT

  • Introduction
  • Access to customer data and business data (Smart Data) (Part 1)
  • Digital Verification Services (Part 2)
  • Questions and answers
11.00

Coffee Break
11.20

Briefing on the Data (Use and Access) Bill by DSIT
12.20 Lunch
13.20

Roundtable

Comments and/or recommendations on the Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024.

  • The government and ICO policy people will not attend this Roundtable.
  • Your comments will become a valuable input to the legislative process.
  • The PL&B Editorial Team will produce a summary of the recommendations. Comments will be on a non-attributable basis so that everyone can speak freely.
  • The draft document will be circulated in advance to the Briefing participants for their comments before it is submitted to Government, the ICO and Parliament.
15.00 Close

 

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