Data Protection Bill [Lords]

I absolutely do, and the Bill does bring forward the right to the protection of personal data, as...

Is it really accurate to say that everyone will have that right, given the immigration exemption?...

Yes, of course. Everyone who is a British citizen will have the right to make sure that data abou...

Further to the point made by the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry)...

Yes, of course. Exemptions from the GDPR are allowed so that necessary activities can be carried ...

The Secretary of State says that the immigration exemption is covered by the GDPR, but is he awar...

Of course, there are always legal opinions about everything, and our legal opinion is that that i...

I welcome the element of the Bill about the right to be forgotten. I am sure that the Secretary o...

Yes, I can.

Before he does, will the Secretary of State give way?

Of course.

Will the provisions apply to Wikipedia as well?

I will happily respond to both points. Under the Bill, data must be deleted unless there are legi...

Can we be certain that this right to be forgotten will not impede freedom of speech? I am thinkin...

I wholeheartedly agree with my hon. Friend about not limiting the rights of the free press. He mi...

As the Secretary of State is describing, the Bill puts into UK law the EU’s general data protecti...

I agree that this is a strong set of data protection standards. We intend to stay aligned with th...

I am afraid that the Secretary of State has not answered the question asked by the right hon. Mem...

I thought I had answered the question—the right hon. Member for East Ham (Stephen Timms) was nodd...

The Secretary of State is being very generous in taking interventions. He has probably heard from...

I have received representations not only from the National Association of Local Councils, but fro...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. He is being very generous.

I knew that some sm...

I am glad that there is a telephone line. I am sure that the Information Commissioner will be wat...

The Secretary of State has referred to the right to be forgotten. May I suggest that there might ...

The Bill does not change the freedom of information regime. However, it does establish a data pro...

Of course there should be national security opt-outs, and when we were changing the rule from 30 ...

I do not wish to labour the point. I too was the Minister responsible for national security relea...

I have been contacted by a number of businesses in Taunton Deane who are concerned about the work...

That is right. The Bill is structured to be consistent with the EU law elements of GDPR, which au...

The Secretary of State is not sounding any more convincing than he did in his statement on Thursd...

We debated this at length on Thursday, and discussed the fact that it is vital that we look to wh...

I support the Secretary of State in proposing that these amendments be removed. Like many in this...

I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend.

This Bill is an essential piece of legisl...

I refer hon. Members to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and, at t...

I am sure that, like me, my hon. Friend has had a number of letters from people who are concerned...

Yes, indeed. Privacy in the age of the net, with huge data flows and information in abundance, is...

Was there not also a promise, in a sense, to Brian Leveson? The guarantee was that a single inqui...

A characteristically articulate question, there. My hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn th...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I was anticipating an intervention from the hon. Gentleman. I hope that he can convince me that t...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and for his earlier and quite proper referenc...

I do not believe that Max Mosley now holds the views ascribed to him. This is what happens when p...

I will make some progress.

In his statement to the House last week, the Secretary of State ...

With a name like Lindsay, who knows? [Laughter.]

I am not rising to that. I do not know about you, Mr Deputy Speaker, but I got the distinct impre...

As the hon. Gentleman may or may not know, it is entirely standard to count in that way. The same...

The Secretary of State is obviously living in the analogue age if he thinks that he can accept a ...

My hon. Friend is making excellent work of exposing the Government on this point, but things go a...

My hon. Friend makes an important and fair point that I hope the analogue Minister will reflect o...

Order. If we work on a 10-minute limit, but without me imposing it, everybody will get equal time...

I draw Members’ attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I will sta...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is ironic that the press is not to be regulated, when broad...

Either we regulate or we do not, but we cannot do bits. That is why it is important that the Bill...

The Scottish National party acknowledges the need for a new and comprehensive data protection fra...

I start by declaring an interest, in that before I became embroiled in the world of politics, I w...

That is neither here nor there, because the whole point of the Leveson inquiry was to establish w...

I was coming to some of the points that the hon. Gentleman mentions, but the issue is that if Lev...

The point is that the investigation is sort of happening now through the civil courts, except tha...

However, Leveson 2 would not necessarily put any of that right.

Yes it would!

Well, we do not know that. The difficulty is that a lengthy, costly process that in the end might...

Does the hon. Gentleman not agree with me, a fellow former journalist, that one of the things tha...

The hon. Lady is right that the Press Complaints Commission did fail, which is why it is rightly ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is being characteristically courteous in giving way to s...

No one is suggesting just moving on and leaving things in the dark. That is not at all what the G...

With the greatest of respect, regulations are forward looking, but the inquiry that we are seekin...

I do not believe that the inquiry that the other place seeks, through its amendment, to impose on...

rose—

However, I will give way to my hon. Friend.

For the sake of novelty, my hon. Friend is taking an intervention from the Government side.