European Council

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:14 pm on 26 March 2018.

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Photo of Theresa May Theresa May The Prime Minister, Leader of the Conservative Party 4:14, 26 March 2018

We are looking at the issues around data as part of our negotiations with the European Union. We are bringing the general data protection regulation into UK legislation. This is another area where we want to ensure that we have a good arrangement for data exchange in the future.

Work is in hand at an international level—at the OECD level—on the taxation of digital companies. We believe that the best result is an international result, but we also think it right to look, as the European Union, at whether any interim steps need to be taken to ensure that we are properly taxing these companies.