Minister for digital is confident about maintaining smooth UK-EU data transfers in a post-Brexit world

Tom Allen
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Matt Hancock urged MPs to support the Data Protection Bill

Matt Hancock, the minister of state for digital at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has told a Lords committee that he is confident that the UK will obtain and maintain ‘adequacy' (pari...

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