Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

My Lords, I rise with some temerity. This is my first visit to this Committee to speak. I have po...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 115 in my name. I start by saying a huge thanks to the noble ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones, Lord Bethell and Lord Kirkho...

I welcome the Committee back after what I hope was a good Easter break for everybody. I thank all...

Can the Minister just recap? He said that he met the trust then swiftly moved on without saying w...

The point I was making was only that we have met with it and will continue to do so in order to i...

The Minister is not suggesting a solution at the moment. Is it in the “too difficult” box?

I doubt that it will be too difficult, but identifying and implementing the correct solution is t...

I am sorry to keep interrogating the Minister, but that is quite an admission. The Minister says ...

I am not sure I accept that it is “quite something”, in the noble Lord’s words. As and when the a...

My Lords, we heard from the two noble Lords some concrete examples of where those data breaches a...

My Lords, in a way the Minister is acknowledging that there is a watering down taking place, yet ...

The Minister mentioned prosecutions and legal redress in the UK from international data transfer ...

A number of important points were raised there. Yes, of course I will share—

I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but the point I made—this now follows on from other rema...

As I said, a number of important points were raised there. First, I would not categorise the chan...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response, but I am still absolutely baffled as to why the ...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

117: Schedule 6, page 212, line 27, leave out “In section 7...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

122: Schedule 6, page 217, line 27, before “this” insert “s...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

128: Schedule 7, page 221, line 5, at end insert—

“6A...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

131: Schedule 7, page 226, leave out lines 37 to 39 and ins...

Moved by

Lord Bethell

135: After Clause 27, insert the following new Clause—

“A...

My Lords, the issue of access to data for researchers is very familiar to all those involved in d...

My Lords, I support Amendment 135 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, to which I have ad...

My Lords, there is little for me to say. The noble Lord, Lord Bethell, and the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, and his cosignatories for bringing this ...

My Lords, as ever, many thanks to all noble Lords who spoke in the debate.

Amendment 135, t...

Perhaps I could encourage the Minister to say at least whether he is concerned that a lack of evi...

I am thinking very carefully about how best to answer. Yes, I do share that concern. I will set t...

I am enormously grateful to the Minister for his response. However, it falls short of my hopes. O...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

135A: Clause 28, page 48, line 35, leave out “required” a...

That was a very good conclusion to the response from the noble Lord, Lord Bethell—urging a Minist...

My Lords, I come to this topic rather late and without the star quality in this area that has tod...

My Lords, we have heard some fine words from the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, in putting the c...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his amendments and thank the other nobl...

May I just intrude on the Minister’s flow? As I understand it, there is a possibility that relati...

That is a very good question but the noble Lord will understand that I am somewhat reluctant to p...

But understanding the impact on people’s rights is important in the context of this legislation.<...

As I say, it is a good question but I cannot comment further on that one. I will see whether ther...

The Minister left us on a tantalising note. He was unable to say whether the law enforcement orga...

I thank the noble Lord for that. It is a lawyerly question and, as he knows, I am not a lawyer. W...

Perhaps the same correspondence could cover the point I raised as well.

My Lords, I am immensely grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Anderson and Lord Bassam, for their in...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

136: Clause 29, page 52, line 33, leave out “with the day o...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Cotes

137: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 137 in my name. I apologise to the Committee that I was unab...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, has done us a service by raising this issue. My questi...

My Lords, we should be very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Cotes, for her amendme...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions—I think. I thank my noble friend Lady Morgan of C...

Is the Minister almost agreeing with some of my analysis in that case?

No, I think I was agreeing with my noble friend’s analysis.

It does not sound like that to me.

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. We acknowledge this particular problem and we ar...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for his response. I also thank the noble Lords, Lo...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

138: Clause 31, page 56, leave out lines 10 to 14 and ins...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendment 140 and the submissions that Clauses 32 to 35 should not...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 142, 143 and 150 in my name, and I thank other noble Lords f...

My Lords, as is so often the case on this subject, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Kidro...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, and other noble Lord...

We had this debate during the passage of the Online Safety Act. In the end, we all agreed—the Hou...

I absolutely recognise the need for speed, and my noble friend Lady Harding made this point very ...

Before the Minister sits down, I would very much welcome a meeting, as the noble Baroness, Lady H...

I am very happy to try to find a way forward on this. Let me think about how best to take this fo...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and, in particular, for that exchange. There is a...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

139: Clause 32, page 58, line 24, leave out “with the day o...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

141: Clause 32, page 61, line 4, at end insert—

“(3A)...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

146: After Clause 35, insert the following new Clause—