Data (Use and Access) Act 2025: stages, votes and documents
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 19 June 2025, 239 days after its first reading in the House of Lords on 23 October 2024. MPs divided on it 11 times between 7 May 2025 and 10 June 2025; the narrowest margin was 71 (motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 49D).
Stages taken place
24
Commons divisions
11
Documents listed
29
Royal Assent
19 June 2025
What the bill is for
The long title reads:
A bill to make provision about access to customer data and business data; to make provision about services consisting of the use of information to ascertain and verify facts about individuals; to make provision about the recording and sharing, and keeping of registers, of information relating to apparatus in streets; to make provision about the keeping and maintenance of registers of births and deaths; to make provision for the regulation of the processing of information relating to identified or identifiable living individuals; to make provision about privacy and electronic communications; to establish the Information Commission; to make provision about information standards for health and social care; to make provision about the grant of smart meter communication licences; to make provision about the disclosure of information to improve public service delivery; to make provision about the retention of information by providers of internet services in connection with investigations into child deaths; to make provision about providing information for purposes related to the carrying out of independent research into online safety matters; to make provision about the retention of biometric data; to make provision about services for the provision of electronic signatures, electronic seals and other trust services; to make provision about the creation and solicitation of purported intimate images and for connected purposes.
Sponsors
- Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Labour, Lords), Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Peter Kyle (Labour, Commons), Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Stages
| Stage | House | Sittings |
|---|---|---|
| 1st reading | Lords | 23 October 2024 |
| 2nd reading | Lords | 19 November 2024 |
| Committee stage | Lords | 3 December 2024, 10 December 2024, 16 December 2024, 18 December 2024 |
| Report stage | Lords | 21 January 2025, 28 January 2025 |
| 3rd reading | Lords | 5 February 2025 |
| 1st reading | Commons | 6 February 2025 |
| 2nd reading | Commons | 12 February 2025 |
| Programme motion | Commons | 12 February 2025 |
| Ways and Means resolution | Commons | 12 February 2025 |
| Money resolution | Commons | 12 February 2025 |
| Committee stage | Commons | 4 March 2025, 11 March 2025 |
| Report stage | Commons | 7 May 2025 |
| 3rd reading | Commons | 7 May 2025 |
| Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | Lords | 12 May 2025 |
| Programme motion | Commons | 14 May 2025 |
| Consideration of Lords message | Commons | 14 May 2025 |
| Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | Lords | 19 May 2025 |
| Consideration of Lords message | Commons | 22 May 2025 |
| Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | Lords | 2 June 2025 |
| Consideration of Lords message | Commons | 3 June 2025 |
| Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | Lords | 4 June 2025 |
| Consideration of Lords message | Commons | 10 June 2025 |
| Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons | Lords | 11 June 2025 |
| Royal Assent | Unassigned | 19 June 2025 |
Commons divisions on this bill
| Date | Division | Ayes | Noes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 1 | 76 | 295 |
| 7 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 2 | 88 | 287 |
| 7 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 19 | 160 | 294 |
| 7 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill Report Stage: New Clause 21 | 97 | 363 |
| 14 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 32 | 371 | 98 |
| 14 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 43B | 304 | 68 |
| 14 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to disagree Lords Amendment 49B | 297 | 168 |
| 14 May 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill CCLM: motion to insist Commons Amendment 52 | 366 | 98 |
| 22 May 2025 | Data Use and Access Bill: motion to disagree to Lords Amendment 49D | 195 | 124 |
| 3 June 2025 | Motion to Disagree with the Lords in their Amendment 49F (Data Use and Access Bill) | 317 | 185 |
| 10 June 2025 | Data (Use and Access) Bill: Motion to insist on disagreement to LA49 and make (a) to (e) in lieu | 304 | 189 |
Documents
Act of Parliament
- Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (c. 18) 19 June 2025
Bill
- 5901040.pdf · 5901040.html 23 October 2024
- 5901057.pdf · 5901057.html 18 December 2024
- 5901064.pdf · 5901064.html 28 January 2025
- Bill 179 2024-25 (as brought from the Lords) 6 February 2025
- Bill 199 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) 13 March 2025
- 5901100.pdf 7 May 2025
- Bill 238 2024-25 (Lords Amendments to the Bill) 12 May 2025
- 5901102.pdf 14 May 2025
- Bill 248 2024-25 (Lords Amendments to the Bill) 20 May 2025
- 5901104.pdf 22 May 2025
- Bill 253 2024-25 (Lords Amendments to the Bill) 3 June 2025
- 5901106.pdf 3 June 2025
- Bill 256 2024-25 (Lords Insistence and Reason) 5 June 2025
- 5901108.pdf 10 June 2025
Explanatory Notes
- HL Bill 40 Explanatory Notes · 5901040.pdf 23 October 2024
- Bill 179 EN 2024-25 7 February 2025
- HL Bill 100 Explanatory Notes · 5901100en.pdf 7 May 2025
Impact Assessments
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - Impact Assessment.pdf 24 October 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - NUAR Impact Assessment.pdf 24 October 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - Smart Data Impact Assessment .pdf 24 October 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - Researchers' Access to Data Impact Assessment.pdf 24 October 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - Open Data Architecture Information Standards Impact Assessment.pdf 24 October 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill - Digital Verification Services De Minimis Assessment.pdf 24 October 2024
Delegated Powers Memorandum
- DUA Bill - Delegated Powers Memorandum for Introduction October 2024.pdf 23 October 2024
- DUABillSuppDPM.pdf 9 May 2025
Briefing papers
- Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]: HL Bill 40 1 November 2024
- Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] 2 February 2025
- Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]: progress of the bill 29 April 2025
Official record
Sources
| Record | Read | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
| Bills API: bill | 28 October 2026 | 201f63a598b327f0… |
| Bills API: stages | 28 October 2026 | eff6c9f8ed6b8f0e… |
| Bills API: publications | 15 October 2026 | 5091d1393e62b0fe… |