Question follow-through · 122037
Internet: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the rules governing data protection that require sites and services using age verification to delete submitted information once tha
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she has made an assessment of the effectiveness of the rules governing data protection that require sites and services using age verification to delete submitted information once tha
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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23 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government has not undertaken a specific assessment of the effectiveness of rules requiring the deletion of data submitted for age verification once it has been used.The UK’s data protection framework requires personal data to be minimised and not ret...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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