Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

My Lords, I listened carefully to the explanation given by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, fo...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, for tab...

Before the noble Lord gets there and we move too far from Amendment 154, where does the Governmen...

If the action is raised on behalf of named individuals, those named individuals have to have give...

My Lords, just so that the Minister might get a little note, I will ask a question. He has explai...

The reason was that an extensive consultation was undertaken in 2021 by the Government, and the G...

Perhaps the Minister could in due course say what evidence would help to persuade the Government ...

I want to help the Minister. Perhaps he could give us some more detail on the nature of that cons...

Fair enough. Maybe for the time being, it will satisfy the Committee if I share a copy of that co...

My Lords, is the Minister saying that there is absolutely no confusion between the jurisdiction o...

No, as I was about to say, we need to take these issues seriously. The noble Lord raised a number...

So was I.

I will go away and look at those; I look forward to learning more about them. There are obvious i...

I am intrigued by the balance between what goes to a tribunal and what goes to the courts. I took...

I thank the noble Lord; that is an important point. The question is: how does the Sorting Hat ope...

Before we come to the end of this debate, I just want to raise something. I am grateful to the Mi...

I would be very happy to participate in that discussion, absolutely.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I have surprised myself: I have taken something ...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

152: Clause 45, page 79, line 30, leave out “with the day” ...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

156: Clause 49, page 83, line 21, leave out “and (3)” and i...

My Lords, the UK has rightly moved away from the EU concept of supremacy, under which retained EU...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very careful exposition. I feel that we are heavily into ...

My Lords, I have looked at the government amendments in this group and have listened very careful...

I thank the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones and Lord Bassam, for their comments. As the noble Lor...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

157: Clause 49, page 83, line 24, at end insert “: relevant...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

176: Schedule 9, page 231, line 35, at end insert—

“2...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

177: Clause 53, page 88, line 16, at end insert...

My Lords, we now move on to Part 2 of the Bill, which concerns the provision of digital verificat...

My Lords, I speak in favour of Amendment 195ZA in my name and that of the noble Lords, Lord Vaux ...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 195ZA—I will get to understand where these numbers co...

My Lords, this is quite a disparate group of amendments. I support Amendment 195ZA, which I have ...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and my noble friend L...

Is the Minister saying that, as a result of the Equality Act, there is an absolute right to that ...

I understand that some services are purely digital, but some of those may well not have digital I...

On this point, the argument that the Government are making is that, where consumers want to use a...

My Lords, in essence, the Minister is admitting that there is a gap when somebody who does not ha...

In the example I gave, I was not willing to use a digital system to provide a guarantee for my so...

The Bill does not change the requirements in this sense. If any organisation chooses to provide i...

My Lords, the clause stand part amendment was clearly probing. Does the Minister have anything to...

It is very important that the OneLogin system is entirely separate and not considered a DVS. We c...

That is a good reassurance, but if the Minister wants to unpack that further by correspondence, I...

I am very happy to do so.

I turn finally to Amendments 289 and 300, which aim to introduce ...

My Lords, I am sorry, but this is a broad-ranging set of amendments, so I need to intervene on th...

That is absolutely fair enough: I will of course write. Sadly, we are not joined today by ministe...

We always enjoy having input from the Home Office.

I have no doubt that its contribution to the letter will be equally enjoyable. However, for all t...

My Lords, I suppose I am meant to say that I thank the Minister for his response, but I cannot sa...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

195A: Clause 85, page 108, line 38, at end ...

My Lords, this is a very small and modest amendment, adding a fifth element to a list. Clause 85 ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 218, which is in my name and those of the right reverend Pre...

This is a slightly disparate group of amendments. I have added my name in support of Amendment 29...

My Lords, this group has three amendments within it and, as the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, said, it i...

My Lords, these amendments have been spoken to so well that I do not need to spend a huge amount ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Bennett, Lady Young of Old Scone and Lady Jones, for...

The Minister made the point at the end there that it is in the EU’s interest to agree to our data...

Before the Minister stands up, let me just say that I absolutely agree with what the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, can I point out, on the interests of the EU, that it does not go just one way? There is...

I do not know what I could possibly have said to create the impression that the Government are fl...

Could we have a list of the people the noble Lord is talking about?

Yes. I would be happy to provide a list of the people we have spoken to about adequacy; it may be...

Perhaps the Minister could just tweak that a bit by listing not just the people who have made pos...

Yes.

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My Lords, I thank the Minister for his answer. This has been a fairly short but fruitful debate. ...

Good try.

It was worth a try.

I hope that the noble Baroness does not get too carried away on that one.

I am sure that we will revisit this at some point in future. Perhaps the noble Lord will like the...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

196: Clause 96, page 123, line 42, after “holders” insert “...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

197: Clause 103, page 131, line 7, at end insert—

“(9...

My Lords, for the convenience of the Committee and in view of the forthcoming votes, I think it w...

My Lords, I would much rather not. We are due to end at 8.15 pm and I should like to hold to that...

All right, we shall make as much progress as we can.

Amendment 197A

Moved by

Lord Holmes of Richmond

197A: After Clause 103, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in today’s Committee proceedings. I declare my technology...

My Lords, I have added my name in support of the stand part notices of the noble Lord, Lord Cleme...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly in support of, first, the amendments in the name of my noble fr...

My Lords, I find myself in a fortunate position: we have made progress fast enough to enable me t...

My Lords, there is a Division in the Chamber. There are two votes back to back so the Committee w...

I do not have the benefit of seeing a Hansard update to know after which word I was interrupted a...

My Lords, it has been a pleasure to listen to noble Lords’ speeches in this debate. We are all ve...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to what has been an excellent debate on th...

I thank my noble friend Lord Holmes, the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and the noble Lord, Lord Cle...

I am sorry, but I am wondering whether the Minister is going to say any more on the amendment in ...

I apologise if I have misunderstood. It sounds like it would be a unit within the ICO responsible...

One of the crucial aspects has been the reporting of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commi...

Yes. There are indeed a number of different elements of surveillance camera oversight; those are ...

Does the Minister accept that the police are one of the key agencies that will be using surveilla...

No. I was saying that there was extensive consultation, including with the police, and that that ...

My Lords, to go back to some of the surveillance points, one of the issues is the speed at which ...

Yes, indeed. In many ways, this is advantageous. The Information Commissioner obviously has a foc...

Is the noble Viscount saying that splitting it all up into multiple different places is more effe...

I do not think we are moving from a simple position. We are moving from a very complex position t...

Can the Minister reassure the Committee that, under the Government’s proposals, there will be suf...

Yes, indeed. The information commission will be accountable to Parliament. It is required to prod...

Will the Minister write to the Committee, having taken advice from his Home Office colleagues?