UK Data Protection Act 2018: every control, and what you already have

12 controls 47 frameworks share controls with it United Kingdom verified against its source document

Every control below is one this framework asks for. The right hand column counts how many other frameworks in our corpus carry the same control, which is the difference between doing this work once and doing it again for the next standard.

Botswana Data Protection Act 2018 Evidence & Implementation Kit

12 controls is the documentation set somebody has to write. This is that set, already written: an adopt-ready artifact for every control in policy and procedure text you edit rather than draft, and the evidence checklist an auditor asks for against each.

See what is in it, $249

The same set every buyer of this kit receives. Nothing here is produced on request.

What you already have

Frameworks whose controls overlap this one, most first. If you run any of them, the count is roughly what you have already evidenced.

If you run	Shared controls
UK Age Appropriate Design Code (Children's Code)	4	measure it →
AICPA Privacy Management Framework (PMF)	3	measure it →
Albania Law on Protection of Personal Data (Law No. 9887, 2008, amended 2014)	3	measure it →
APPI	3	measure it →
Armenia Law on Protection of Personal Data (2015)	3	measure it →
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)	3	measure it →
Austria Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG, amended 2018)	3	measure it →
Azerbaijan Law on Personal Data (2010)	3	measure it →
Azure Security Benchmark	3	measure it →
Bahrain PDPL	3	measure it →
Barbados Data Protection Act 2019	3	measure it →
Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)	3	measure it →

Every control

Code	Control	Also in
`UK-DPA18-GEN-01`	Lawful Bases and Conditions	0
`UK-DPA18-GEN-02`	ICO Powers and Enforcement	0
`UK-DPA18-GEN-03`	Age of Consent for ISS	7
`UK-DPA18-GEN-04`	UK-Specific Exemptions	39
`UK-DPA18-LE-01`	Law Enforcement Processing Principles	0
`UK-DPA18-LE-02`	Data Subject Rights (Law Enforcement)	39
`UK-DPA18-LE-03`	International Transfers (Law Enforcement)	42
`UKDPA-1`	Scope, UK GDPR Implementation, Parts 1-2	0
`UKDPA-2`	Law Enforcement Processing (Part 3)	0
`UKDPA-3`	Intelligence Services Processing (Part 4)	0
`UKDPA-4`	ICO Powers and Enforcement	0
`UKDPA-5`	Children, Automated Decisions, Breach, International Transfers	0

Tell me when UK Data Protection Act 2018 files something new

One email when a public company newly discloses something this framework governs, naming the company and what our corpus says it puts in scope. Nothing else, and one click to stop.

What an auditor will ask you to produce

The artefacts named on the failure modes this framework speaks to.

Evidence of executive or risk owner approval
Operational records demonstrating execution
Independent assurance or review report
Documented procedure addressing uk-specific exemptions
Documented procedure addressing lawful bases and conditions
Documented procedure addressing content moderation information
Legal register tracking enforcement risk
Counsel opinion on liability exposure
Self disclosure decision records
Insurance coverage evidence

How programmes fail on this

Failure modes named by this framework and others. Each opens the full record.

Procedure exists but execution inconsistent named by 7 frameworks
Review cadence missed or undocumented named by 7 frameworks
Owner accountability not codified named by 7 frameworks
Coverage gaps for in scope entities or systems named by 7 frameworks
Cooperation credit strategy absent named by 3 frameworks
Bundled consent across distinct purposes named by 3 frameworks

What this page is

A control-level reference for UK Data Protection Act 2018, drawn from our framework corpus. Control codes and titles are references to the standard, not reproductions of it. The overlap counts and the auditor artefacts are our own work and are the part you will not find elsewhere.

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