Member

Amendment 48 to Clause 45 would create a quality assurance requirement for public authorities to ensure that they do not provide information about an individual via the information gateway that does not meet the basic expectation of integrity—that is, that it is accurate, at least at the time that it was recorded, has not been tampered with, and is accompanied by clear metadata that describes the data so that its meaning cannot be misconstrued. These are the same requirements that private sector providers certified under the trust frame- work must meet, and it seems right that public bodies should give a similar level of assurance of the integrity of the data that they provide. As I have said, public bodies have been modifying data with the best of intentions but, none the less, causing a problem for data integrity.