From: Government Digital
Service, Cabinet Office,
and Central Digital and Data
Office From January to March 2023, the Cabinet Office
consulted on draft regulations to help more people prove who they
are online.
The proposed regulations would create a new objective under the
Digital Economy Act 2017, allowing controlled data sharing
between a number of public bodies already specified in the act
and with 4 additional organisations:
- Cabinet Office
- Department for Transport
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Disclosure and Barring Service.
We received 66,233 responses during the consultation period. The
government thanks all those who took the time and effort to
respond to the consultation, and for the contributions received.
The government is clear that there isn’t public support for
national identity cards in the UK and this is not something
proposed in, or enabled by, this legislation.
Where responses did engage with the specific consultation
questions, they highlighted the wider potential benefits of the
data sharing regulations, including to physical health and social
wellbeing, and we will make a minor amendment on this basis. The
government has also proposed that the draft regulations would
come into force 21 days after, rather than the day after, being
approved by Parliament.
The UK government intends to take forward legislation as soon as
parliamentary time allows.
Download the full outcome
Government response to the
consultation on draft legislation to support identity
verification
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Government response to the
consultation on draft legislation to support identity
verification (PDF version)
PDF, 233
KB, 32 pages
Updated impact assessment
of the draft legislation on people with protected
characteristics
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Original consultation Summary
Consultation on updates to data sharing legislation to make
identity verification online more reliable so more people can use
digital public services.
This consultation ran from midday on 4 January
2023 to 11:45pm on 1 March 2023
Consultation description
Consultation on draft Digital Government (Disclosure of
Information) (Identity Verification Services) Regulations 2023.
The aim of the draft legislation is to improve how data is shared
and used across the public sector. This is to make identity
verification online easier and more reliable, and to help the
government ensure more people can use digital public services.
How to respond
You can respond to
this consultation online.
We cannot accept postal responses to this consultation unless
there are exceptional circumstances. If you need to send in a
postal submission, contact the Data Sharing Legislation Team
on dea-data-sharing@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk.
Documents
Consultation on draft
legislation to support identity verification
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Consultation on draft
legislation to support identity verification (PDF
version)
PDF, 623
KB, 49 pages
Impact assessment of the
draft data sharing legislation on people with protected
characteristics
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Data ethics assessment of
the draft data sharing legislation
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Draft Digital Government
(Disclosure of Information) (Identity Verification Services)
Regulations 2023
PDF, 98
KB, 4 pages
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