Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the policy paper, The exchange and protection of personal data: a future partnership paper, published on 24 August 2017, what discussions the Government has had with the Scottish Government on the proposed UK-EU model for exchanging and protecting personal data.

The Government has been clear from the start that the devolved administrations should be fully engaged in our exit from the EU. The Government’s recent paper: The exchange and protection of personal data - a future partnership paper, and others provide a basis for further discussion, including with the devolved administrations, on the future partnership the UK wants to build with the EU. We have shared papers in advance with the devolved administrations and provided technical briefings ahead of publication.

Ministers and officials regularly meet with their counterparts at the Scottish Government to discuss a range of matters, including on the future partnership between the UK and the EU.