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Commons · Question 24465 · Tabled 16 Jan 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 21 Jan 2025

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Asked by Tonia Antoniazzi

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the (a) reliability, (b) accuracy and (c) consistency of personal identity data on sex held by (i) HM Passport Office, (ii) the Driver and Vehicle Licensi

Answer

Answered by Feryal Clark, 21 Jan 2025

The digital verification services (DVS) framework seeks to create rules for how those services operate. The DVS framework doesn’t create new ways to determine a person’s sex or gender. Nor does it intervene with how government departments record and store...