Bill · started in the Lords

Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

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.

The story so farThe Data (Use and Access) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 23 October 2024 by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour). It completed its passage through Parliament and became law as the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, receiving Royal Assent on 19 June 2025.

Sponsors

• Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Labour Primary sponsor
• Peter Kyle Labour

Progress through Parliament

Votes on this bill

Recorded Commons divisions on this bill, in the order they happened. Each links to who voted which way.

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 8 Aug 2025.