Meeting description: To discuss the Scottish Government's Transport (Scotland) Bill focusing specifically on the Scottish Community Apparatus Data Vault requirements in this Bill to mandate statutory undertakers and those carrying out works in the road to provide information on utility assets in particular the lack of data security assurances in current proposals. Street Works UK alongside its attending members raise concerns that the current proposals do not guarantee the protection of Critical National Infrastructure assets as while some undertakers are bound by high levels of data security on communication networks critical water pipelines and supplies there are no requirements for third parties under Vault to maintain the same level of data security therefore exposing the network to risk. In the meeting Street Works UK Scottish Water and Openreach raise these concerns and sought clarification as to how issues around data security would be managed and provide assurances through a minimum security standards that would protect data while allowing third parties to access information on the wider underground utility network and therefore comply with the Bills aim of greater transparency.
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