PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Charities: Data Protection (10 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the General Data Protection Regulation on organisations operating on a not-for-profit basis; and what steps he is taking to minimise administrative costs placed on those organisations as a result of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The UK exercised its ability to derogate from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) through the Data Protection Act 2018 to create a proportionate data protection regime which is robust and protects the rights of individuals, whilst providing legal certainty for organisations.

An impact assessment of the derogations to GDPR exercised by the government was published in 2017, and is available at the link below.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664329/General_Processing_Impact_Assessment.pdf

Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
16 July 2018