Right to Data and the Protection of Freedoms Bill
Greater transparency is at the heart of our commitment to open up Government to greater scrutiny and allow the public to hold us to account. Improving access to public sector data will help citizens to make choices about their services and better enable them to converse and collaborate with Government.
The Coalition Agreement stated that the Government will “create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public and then published on a regular basis”. It went on that this was “..to ensure that all data published by public bodies is published in an open and standardised format, so that it can be used easily and with minimal cost by third parties.”
