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Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

If that is the case and this is a dilution, is this where the Government think they will get the savings identified in the impact assessment?

It was alleged in the Public Bill Committee that this is where a lot of the savings would come from—we all have rather different views. My first information was that every SME might save about £80 a year then, suddenly, the Secretary of State started talking about £10 billion of benefit from the Bill. Clarification of that would be extremely helpful. There seems to be a dichotomy between the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, saying that this is a way to reduce the burdens on business and the Minister saying that it is all about confident refusal and confidence. He has used that word twice, which is worrying.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
837 c129GC 
Session
2023-24
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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