My Lords, may I just revisit that with the Minister? I fear that he is going to move on to another subject. The Delegated Powers Committee said that it thought that the Government had not provided strong enough reasons for needing this power. The public interest list being proposed, which the Minister outlined, is quite broad, so it is hard to imagine the Government wanting something not already listed. I therefore return to what the committee said. Normally, noble Lords like to listen to recommendations from such committees. There is no strong reason for needing that extra power, so, to push back a little on the Minister, why, specifically, is it felt necessary? If it were a public safety interest, or one of the other examples he gave, it seems to me that that would come under the existing list of public interests.
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 25 March 2024.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.
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