| Heading: |
Data Protection: Small Businesses |
| Question ID: |
1820829 |
| UIN: |
65902 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-08 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4874 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Griffith
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| Asking Member handle: |
griffitha
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@griffitha
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he has had discussions with industry representatives on the impact of data protection requirements on SMEs. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-11 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1446 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Bryant
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| Answer text: |
Yes, my department has regularly engaged with businesses, trade associations and other interest groups during passage of the Data (Use and Access) Act. Many of the provisions in the Act are designed to simplify the data protection legislation for organisa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
216 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Tweeted: |
true |