Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

My Lords, I apologise to the Committee that duties elsewhere in the House prevented me from atten...

In the two previous groups, I raised pension credit, and it is notable that the noble Viscount th...

My Lords, it has been a privilege to be at the ringside during these three groups. I think the no...

My Lords, this has been a somewhat shorter debate than we have been used to, bearing in mind Mond...

I take the Minister’s point and I will settle for the appellation “investigatory powers nerd”; I ...

My Lords—

If I may just answer that question from the noble Lord, Lord Anderson; I think it is important to...

In relation to the code of practice, which I am glad the Minister mentioned, we have just seen th...

Indeed, I was going to come on to that later in my remarks, particularly to address the points ra...

I have a question. I am slightly puzzled about the difference between data collection and surveil...

Indeed, I think we are going back to the debates that we had on Monday. However, this chimes with...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Viscount, but I just want to be clear about what he is saying i...

I will certainly take that back. I do not want to make any commitments today. I have already set ...

I am grateful to the noble Viscount. This is just a thought, but we are happy to help, as we ofte...

I appreciate the tone of the noble Lord and, if there is anything that comes from behind me befor...

I am grateful to the Minister—I am just trying to catch up. On the point that he made about regul...

Again, I hope that I might have covered this earlier. If I read the noble Lord’s question correct...

I apologise; I did not make myself clear. I think that we are on entirely the same wavelength on ...

My understanding —with his experience, I am sure that the noble Lord will be ahead of me on this—...

My Lords, as I asked only four questions, I want to try to nail each one as we go. I am grateful ...

That is correct. I hope indeed that it provides some reassurance that extending it to the banks a...

To be clear, they already have some information about claimants or recipients. Does this Bill mak...

Indeed, that is correct. I hope that is helpful and gives the noble Lord reassurance. To clarify,...

I am most grateful to the Minister. There is one question, so I apologise if he answered it and I...

That is one of the questions that I can now answer. The power will allow this, in so far as it pe...

May I add to the very long letter? I have been sitting here worrying about this idea that one of ...

That is a very fair question, and I hope that I understand it correctly. I can say that the limit...

My Lords, the Minister extolled the green-rated nature of this impact assessment. In the midst of...

I need to be reminded of the question.

I asked about the amount of fraud that the Government plan to detect, on top of the £6.4 billion ...

The figure that we have is £600 million but, again, I will reflect on the actual question that we...

The Minister is saying that that figure is not to be found in this green-rated impact assessment,...

I will certainly take that back, but it is green rated.

My Lords, we have talked about proportionality and disproportionality throughout the debate on th...

My Lords, the Minister was kind enough to mention me a little earlier. Can I just follow up on th...

I hope I can help both noble Lords. Although I must admit that I have not read every single page,...

Did the Minister say £500 million?

Yes, £500 million. I mentioned £600 million altogether; that was mentioned by the OBR, which had ...

My Lords, has not that demonstrated the disproportionality of these measures?

The noble Viscount explained in response to the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, that at every stage wh...

I understand, very quickly, that it is in paragraph 1(1), but again, in the interests of time, ma...

Could the Minister clarify: was that paragraph 1(1)?

I can reassure the noble Lord that that is the case, yes.

I do not know whether I can help. I agree with the noble Baroness: I do not think it is very clea...

I reassure noble Lords that is correct—it is paragraph 1(1). It may be rather complex, but it is ...

I am sorry to keep coming back, but did the Minister give us the paragraph in the impact assessme...

No, I did not, but that is something which surely we can deal with outside the Room. However, I c...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his attempts to answer my questions and those of many noble Lo...

Before the noble Baroness sits down, I want to say one very important thing. As ever with Bills, ...

My Lords, I am sure that on behalf of the Committee I can thank the Minister for that generous of...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

236: Clause 129, page 158, line 27, leave out “, or are due...

My Lords, having listened carefully to representations from across the House at Second Reading, I...

My Lords, it is an unusual pleasure to support the Minister and to say that this is a very welcom...

My Lords, I want briefly to contribute to this debate, which I think is somewhat less contentious...

My Lords, having been involved in and seen the campaigning of the bereaved families and the noble...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out the amendment and all noble Lords who spoke. I am ...

Let me begin by reiterating my thanks to the noble Baroness, Peers, families and coroners for the...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

237: Clause 129, page 158, leave out lines 30 and 31

...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

239: Clause 133, page 169, line 10, at end inse...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 239 and to speak to Amendment 250 in my name. I am grateful to...

My Lords, I will be brief because we very much support these amendments. Interestingly, Amendment...

My Lords, I declare an interest as someone who has been through the paper death registration proc...

Can I just be clear? The noble Lord was quite rightly saying that there is going to be a move to ...

The noble Baroness asks a fair question. A major thing is being proposed, so it is best that we w...

My Lords, I am grateful to hear that there is some work ongoing on the registrar process and that...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

240: Clause 138, page 172, line 14, leave out “Part 3” and ...

My Lords, I now turn to the national underground asset register, which I will refer to as NUAR. I...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his exposition. He explained the purposes of Clauses 138 to 14...

My Lords, the Minister really did big up this section of the Bill. He said it would revolutionise...

I start by thanking the noble Lords, Lord Clement-Jones and Lord Bassam, for their respective rep...

While the Minister is speaking, maybe the Box could tell him whether the figure of only 33% of as...

It did complete a pilot phase this year. As it operationalises, more and more will sign up. I do ...

I am concerned. We get the principle behind NUAR, but is there an interface between NUAR and this...

I am not sure that there is doubt over the current scope of NUAR; it is meant to address all buri...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, is absolutely right to be asking that question. We can go ...

As I understand it, LSBUD services are provided on a pdf, on request. It is not interactive; it i...

My Lords, we are beginning to tease out something quite useful here. Basically, NUAR will be pret...

Indeed, there are two key distinctions. One is the way that the information is provided online, i...

Unlike the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, I do not have that background in seeing what happens with the...

I am not sure whose rights are being trampled on by having a shared database of these things. How...

All I can say is that, in that case, the Minister has been worked on extremely well.

In addition to the situation that the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, described, I was braced for a real...

My Lords, it took them half a day to discover where the hole had gone and what the damage was. Th...

No, indeed, it is a deeply serious point. I do not know the number off the top of my head but the...

I cannot resist drawing the Minister’s attention to the story in today’s Financial Times, which r...

I saw that story. Obviously, regardless of how they report the data, if they do not know, they do...

Before the Minister’s peroration, I just want to check something. He talked about the discovery p...

As I said, the Government have met the Geospatial Commission many times. I would be happy to meet...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

241: Clause 138, page 172, line 16, at end insert—

“1...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

242: Clause 138, page 172, line 18, after “provision” inser...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

247: Schedule 13, page 271, leave out lines 22 and 23 and i...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

248: Clause 139, page 178, line 19, leave out paragraph (f)...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

251: After Clause 142, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, Amendment 251 is also in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Arbuthnot and Lord Clement-...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, on her amendment and thank her for allo...

My Lords, we have heard two extremely powerful speeches; I will follow in their wake but be very ...

My Lords, I support this probing amendment, Amendment 251. I thank all noble Lords who have spoke...

My Lords, I recognise the feeling of the Committee on this issue and, frankly, I recognise the fe...

Can the Minister pass on the following suggestion? Paul Marshall, who has been mentioned by all o...

It may have already done so, but I will certainly pass that on.

I thank everyone who spoke and the Minister for the offer of a meeting alongside his colleagues f...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

253: Clause 143, page 181, line 14, at end insert—

“(...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

254: Schedule 15, page 278, line 17, leave out “Secretary...

My Lords, I am afraid that I will speak to every single one of the amendments in this group but o...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for introducing his amendments so ably. Whe...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Whitc...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response, dusty though it may have been. The noble Barones...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

283: Schedule 15, page 287, line 26, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Viscount Camrose

285: Schedule 15, page 288, line 25, leave out sub-paragrap...

Moved by

Baroness Kidron

291: After Clause 149, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I rise somewhat reluctantly to speak to Amendment 291 in my name. It could hardly be mo...

My Lords, as ever, the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, has nailed this issue. She has campaigned tir...

My Lords, I am pleased that we were able to sign this amendment. Once again, the noble Baroness, ...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, for tabling Amendment 291, which would create several ne...

I do not know how to express in parliamentary terms the depth of my disappointment, so I will lea...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

293: After Clause 149, insert the following new Clause—