Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation

Helen Goodman Excerpts

Tuesday 20th November 2018 Commons Chamber

[Margot James]

I thank the Chair of the Science and Technology Committee for his question, particularly as it has reminded me of something I overlooked in my answer to the previous one. It is absolutely essential that public trust is earned and reinforced, because surveys that I have seen indicate that the public have something of a crisis of trust in the way in which personal data is currently being analysed—

[Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)]

And shared.

[Margot James]

And shared, exactly. This is going to be a vital question for the new centre, but it also comes under the regulatory purview of the Information Commissioner.