UK Data Protection Reform
Data (Use and Access) Bill 2024 (HL Bill 40 2024-25)
Progression of the Data (Use & Access) Bill 2024 (as at 18 February 2025)
“Digital Information & Smart Data Bill:
The Government wants to ensure we harness the power of data for economic
growth, to support a modern digital government, and to improve people’s lives.”
Data Protection & Digital Information Bill, and Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (No.2)
Progression of UK data protection reform under the Conservative governments
Progression of UK data protection reform under the Conservative governments
“The United Kingdom’s data protection regime will be reformed”
“Today, the Government is introducing the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in the House of Commons... We now have the opportunity to seize the benefits of Brexit and transform the UK’s independent data laws. We have designed these new updates to our data protection framework so it works in our interests, protects our citizens, and unburdens our businesses. Through this Bill we will realise the opportunities of responsible data use whilst maintaining the UK’s high data protection standards... We are reducing the burdens on businesses that have held the UK back from the benefits of greater personal data use before now. By focussing on outcomes not box-ticking, we will unburden businesses from prescriptive requirements and empower them to protect personal data in the most proportionate and appropriate way.”
“... we will be replacing GDPR with our own business and consumer-friendly, British data protection system”
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Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants report on peers’ final consideration of the Data (Use and Access) Bill at Third Reading on 05 February 2025, when the Government was defeated by Baroness Owen’s amendments in relation to non-consensual deepfake intimate image offences, before the Bill was sent to the House of Commons.