Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 24465

Electronic Government

Tabled: 16 January 2025
Answered: 21 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Tonia Antoniazzi

LabourGower

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the (a) reliability, (b) accuracy and (c) consistency of personal identity data on sex held by (i) HM Passport Office, (ii) the Driver and Vehicle Licensi

Answer

Feryal Clark
The digital verification services (DVS) framework seeks to create rules for how those services operate. The DVS framework doesn’t create new ways to determine a person’s sex or gender. Nor does it intervene with how government departments record and store...

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