Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

As I was saying, it is important for the framework on data protection that we take a precautionar...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this brief, interrupted but none the less interesting ...

I follow the argument, but what we are suggesting in our amendment is some sort of impact assessm...

Obviously, the Bill has been in preparation for some time. I completely understand the point, whi...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Kamall, Lord Davies of Brixton and Lord Bassam, and the n...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

2: Clause 1, page 2, line 16, leave out “and (3)” and insert...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 2, 3, 9 and 290 in my name. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Jo...

My Lords, in the nearly nine years that I have been in this House, I have often played the role o...

My Lords, I keep getting flashbacks. This one is to the Data Protection Act 2018, although I thin...

My Lords, we on the Labour Benches have become co-signatories to the amendments tabled by the nob...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for her Amendments 2, 3, 9 and 290 and to all n...

While some provisions in the Bill do not specifically mention children or children’s rights, data...

As I understand it, the basis on which we currently operate is that children get a heightened lev...

I am saying, specifically on Clause 1, that separating the identifiability of children and the id...

Can I press the Minister more on Amendment 290 from the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron? All it does ...

I believe it restates what the Government feel is clearly implied or stated throughout the Bill: ...

My Lords, not to put too fine a point on it, the Minister is saying that nothing in the Bill dimi...

Can I add to that question? Is my noble friend the Minister also saying that there is no risk of ...

In answer to both questions, what I am saying is that, first, any risk of misinterpreting the Bil...

My Lords, that creates another question, does it not? If that is the case, why amend the original...

Sorry, the 2018 Act? Or is the noble Lord referring to the amendments?

Why change the wording that provides the protection that is there currently?

I assume the noble Lord is referring to Amendment 290.

I am.

Okay. The Government feel that, in terms of the efficient and effective drafting of the Bill, tha...

My Lords, before our break, the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, said that this is hard-fought groun...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

6: Clause 2, page 4, line 8, leave out from “study” to en...

My Lords, I am going to get rather used to introducing a smorgasbord of probing amendments and st...

My Lords, I speak to Amendments 8, 21, 23 and 145 in my name and thank the other noble Lords who ...

My Lords, I will be brief because I associate myself with everything that the noble Baroness, Lad...

I just want to say that I agree with what the previous speakers have said. I particularly support...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken on this group. Amendment 6 to Clause 2...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for this series o...

I am sorry to interrupt but it may give the Box a chance to give the Minister a note on this. Is ...

I am afraid I do not have an eidetic memory of recital 159, but I would be happy to—

That is precisely why I ask this question in the middle of the Minister’s speech to give the Box ...

Researchers must also comply with the required safeguards to protect individuals’ privacy. All or...

I am interested that the safeguarding requirement is already in the Bill, so, in terms of childre...

Just before we broke, I was on the verge of attempting to answer the question from the noble Baro...

I will read Hansard very carefully, because I am not sure that I absolutely followed the Minister...

With respect to recital 38, that sounds like a really interesting idea. Yes, let us both have a l...

My Lords, that was intriguing. I thank the Minister for his response. It sounds as though, again,...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

10: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I hope this is another lightbulb moment, as the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, suggest...

My Lords, I think this is a lightbulb moment—it is inspired, and this suite of amendments fits to...

My Lords, I am also pleased to support these amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady K...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for raising this interesting and compelling set of ideas...

I am sorry, but the Minister used a pretty pejorative word: “distort” the sector. What does he ha...

I did not mean to be pejorative; I merely point out that before embarking on quite a far-reaching...

Is this one of those “in due course” moments?

It is a moment at which I cannot set a firm date for a firm set of actions, but on the other hand...

My Lords, I am sorry to keep interrupting the Minister. Can he give us a bit of a picture of what...

Overall, as I say and as many have said in this brief debate, this is a potentially far-reaching ...

May I suggest that the Minister writes? On the one hand, he is saying that we will be distorting ...

I am very happy to write on this. I will just say that I am not briefed on previous government po...

It was a few Prime Ministers ago.

It was even further. Yes, I am very happy to write on that. For the reasons I have set out, I am ...

My Lords, I thank the co-signatories of my amendments for their enthusiasm. I will make three ver...