OIX responded on 12th October 2020 to the ‘Next steps for DCMS Digital Identity policy development’ questionnaire.

Key points made in the response can be summarised as:

• OIX advocates for a public-private approach to the definition of the UK Trust Framework for Digital Identity and the accompanying Competent Authority.
• As well as Identity Providers, The Trust Framework must recognise and accredit suppliers of components of trust, and relying parties undertaking their own ID verification.  
• The Competent Authority should be a public-private partnership. 
• OIX could be considered as start point from which to define the Competent Authority, which could also leverage the OIX brand and the OIX Directory. 
• Inclusion is already being partly addressed by the OIX / TechUK Inclusion Steering Group.
• A fine balance between privacy and transparency must be struck
• Any fees for government data sources must be of a level that will allow relying parties to achieve cost efficiencies over and above using existing ID verification approaches.

OIX Members can read the full questionnaire HERE