Question follow-through · 97384
Proof of Identity: Digital Technology
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that mandatory digital ID would not put the population’s personal data at risk of data breaches by hackers and foreign adversaries.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that mandatory digital ID would not put the population’s personal data at risk of data breaches by hackers and foreign adversaries.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2025
Answer published
Security is a core principle of the new national digital credential that government is building, and will follow National Cyber Security Centre advice and international best practice. Data will be federated, not centralised, minimising risks by keeping in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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