Question follow-through · 124101
Professional Publishers Association: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will meet with the PPA to discuss cookie exemptions for publishers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 16 Apr 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if she will meet with the PPA to discuss cookie exemptions for publishers.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Apr 2026
Answer published
The ICO will formally deliver their recommendations on exemptions to Government in the coming weeks. Following this, the government will continue to engage with the publishing and advertising sector to assess the evidence for new exemptions.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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