Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Long title

A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.

Progress through Parliament

1. 1st reading· Lords

   23 October 2024 – 23 October 2024

2. 2nd reading· Lords

   19 November 2024 – 19 November 2024

3. Committee stage· Lords

   3 December 2024 – 18 December 2024

4. Report stage· Lords

   21 January 2025 – 28 January 2025

5. 3rd reading· Lords

   5 February 2025 – 5 February 2025

6. 1st reading· Commons

   6 February 2025 – 6 February 2025

7. 2nd reading· Commons

   12 February 2025 – 12 February 2025

8. Programme motion· Commons

   12 February 2025 – 12 February 2025

9. Ways and Means resolution· Commons

   12 February 2025 – 12 February 2025

10. Money resolution· Commons

    12 February 2025 – 12 February 2025

11. Committee stage· Commons

    4 March 2025 – 11 March 2025

12. Report stage· Commons

    7 May 2025 – 7 May 2025

13. 3rd reading· Commons

    7 May 2025 – 7 May 2025

14. Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons· Lords

    12 May 2025 – 12 May 2025

15. Programme motion· Commons

    14 May 2025 – 14 May 2025

16. Consideration of Lords message· Commons

    14 May 2025 – 14 May 2025

17. Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons· Lords

    19 May 2025 – 19 May 2025

18. Consideration of Lords message· Commons

    22 May 2025 – 22 May 2025

19. Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons· Lords

    2 June 2025 – 2 June 2025

20. Consideration of Lords message· Commons

    3 June 2025 – 3 June 2025