On 30 July 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published guidance on AI and data protection. The guidance is a framework for auditing AI, focusing on best practices for data…
Suzi StephensonJuly 31, 2020
On 28 July 2020, the Government announced a new £500 million Film and TV Production Scheme to kickstart film and television production. The scheme is designed to give productions the…
Suzi StephensonJuly 30, 2020
On 28 July 2020, the Minister of State for Universities, Michelle Donelan MP, responded to a written question on the cost to the public purse of support for higher education…
Suzi StephensonJuly 30, 2020
On 29 July 2020, the Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, Darren Jones MP, wrote to Secretary of State for BEIS Rt Hon Alok Sharma, outlining a…
Suzi StephensonJuly 29, 2020
On 28 July 2020, the Matt Warman MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DCMS, answered a written question on the Government’s target of full fibre broadband for all people by…
Suzi StephensonJuly 29, 2020
On 27 July 2020, the ICO updated their statement on the judgement of the European Court of Justice in the Schrems II case. The CJEU have confirmed how EU standards…
Suzi StephensonJuly 28, 2020
The Government have published research, conducted in 2017, which examines the amount of time that students spend on building their skills and employability in pre-16 and post-16 education. The research…
Suzi StephensonJuly 28, 2020
On Monday 24 July 2020, TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, published a guide to claiming Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR). TIGA have paired with RSM, a…
Suzi StephensonJuly 27, 2020
TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, has today published a Parliamentary activity update for the higher education sector. Guidance: Higher education: reopening buildings and campuses Department…
Suzi StephensonJuly 24, 2020
On 22 July 2020, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) announced that Ofcom will be granted new…
Suzi StephensonJuly 24, 2020
On 20 July 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published their annual report for 2019-2020. The Information Commissioner has called the 2019-2020 period as “transformative” for privacy and data protection,…
Suzi StephensonJuly 24, 2020
On 22 July 2020, Jonathan Gullis MP, made the case for Video Games Tax Relief and a Video Games Investment Fund in his contribution to the Summer Adjournment debate in…
Suzi StephensonJuly 23, 2020
On 23 July 2020, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee published their report on the impact of coronavirus on the DCMS sectors. The report concludes that the Government has…
Suzi StephensonJuly 23, 2020
On 22 July 2020, the Government published their response to the proposed reforms to permitted development rights 5G consultation. TIGA submitted their response to this call for evidence in October…
Suzi StephensonJuly 22, 2020
TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, has responded to The Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee’s inquiry into the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on culture, creative industries,…
Suzi StephensonJuly 22, 2020
On 16 July 2002, Matt Warman MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, responded to a written question asking what assessment…
Suzi StephensonJuly 21, 2020
On 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision in the case Data Protection Commission v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems. The decision invalidates…
Suzi StephensonJuly 20, 2020
TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, said today that the Liberal Democrat pamphlet ‘The Power of Creativity, Recovery and Renewal’ set out a number of important policy…
Suzi StephensonJuly 18, 2020
On 16 July 2020, the Government announced details of a new restructuring regime, specifically for higher education providers such as universities and colleges in England, that could be at risk…
Suzi StephensonJuly 17, 2020