Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect on UK data privacy legislation of not incorporating into UK law, Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The UK has a long history of protecting the rights of its citizens, and we intend to continue
to protect those rights through our domestic legislation. The Data Protection Bill will set
high standards for protecting personal data in accordance with the GDPR. We​ ​will​
​continue​ ​to​ ​provide​ ​a​ ​world-class standard​ ​of​ ​data​ ​protection​ ​after we leave the European
Union

The removal of the Charter from UK law should not affect the substantive rights that
individuals already benefit from in the UK when their data are processed. The Charter is
not the source of rights contained within it, it was intended only to catalogue rights that
already existed in EU law. The Government has committed to implementing the GDPR,
which affords individuals judicial redress in the event of a data breach.