Question follow-through · 86922
Identity Cards: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to establish (a) accountability and (b) oversight mechanisms for the (i) storage and (ii) use of personal data under future digital identity card policies.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to establish (a) accountability and (b) oversight mechanisms for the (i) storage and (ii) use of personal data under future digital identity card policies.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2025
Answer published
Inclusion, usefulness, and security are the principles guiding the new digital ID. The digital ID will draw on the best practice of cyber security from around the world and we have begun engagement with the UK’s leading security experts—including the Nati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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