Member

Amendment 71 tries to address that need directly. It would require the Government to consult on and lay before Parliament regulations setting out the basis on which the NDL would exercise its functions and powers in relation to data use and access. There is a long list in the amendment of issues that the Government would have to consider when drafting the national data library, including, but not limited to: protecting UK data subjects’ personal data; the UK’s economic and national security interests; setting out the basis for extraterritorial data access and transfers; the transparency of onward use of sovereign data assets; data hygiene, to keep it accurate, up to date and free from bias; when consent may be required; how it will value and license the datasets; what process the Government will use to ensure maximum value to the public purse; whether to prioritise UK-based entrepreneurs and researchers; and the mechanisms through which the national data library will be governed and managed.