Question follow-through · 65902
Data Protection: Small Businesses
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
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.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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