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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to set up a Data Ethics Commission.

Data governance, and the effective and ethical use of data, are vital for the future of our economy and society. The Government is committed to creating a sound ethical framework in the UK that will give people confidence in how their data is being handled and used.

We are currently considering the British Academy and Royal Society’s thoughtful report in this issue (https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/data-governance/data-management-governance.pdf) and will set out next steps shortly.