Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 83928

Proof of Identity: Digital Technology

Tabled: 21 October 2025

Answered: 10 November 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he plans to take steps to prevent commercial entities acting as digital ID verifiers from using verification data for (a) marketing, (b) analytics and (c) employment profiling.

Answer

Josh Simons

The Government will conduct a full public consultation on the new digital ID to inform our approach. We are currently exploring best practice from other countries with digital identity schemes and other private sector companies who have digitised their se...

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