Digital Technology: Proof of Identity

(asked on 22nd July 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what guiding principles or policy frameworks are informing their internal discussions on the future of digital identity policy.


Answered by
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Portrait
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
This question was answered on 1st August 2025

The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes (OfDIA), within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, is committed to enabling the use of secure and trusted digital verification services across the UK economy for those who want to use them.

In response to the findings of the 2019 call for evidence on digital identity, the Government set out six principles to inform the development of digital identity policy in the UK. These are privacy, transparency, inclusivity, interoperability, proportionality, and good governance. The Government’s UK digital identity and attributes trust framework, which sets out rules for digital verification services that wish to be certified as trustworthy and will be underpinned by provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, is based around these principles.

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