Data Protection Bill [Lords]

The Data Protection Bill sets out a full new data protection regime for Britain, giving people mo...

If the Secretary of State is so opposed to section 40, why did he support it?

I will come on to what has changed in the many years since 2013, not least of which is the fact t...

I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. First, IPSO is not a press regulator, ...

There is no recognised press regulator other than Impress. As many journalists have pointed out, ...

Will the Secretary of State confirm to the House that the BBC, Channel 4 and every other broadcas...

We have three separate systems of media regulation in this country: a separate system for broadca...

The Secretary of State quoted The Guardian. In fact, its statement released this morning went eve...

It did, yes. I am trying to ensure that we have a debate on these measures that takes into accoun...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in many ways, there are two forms of media already operatin...

My hon. Friend is completely right about the gap between online and print in terms of standards o...

Is not one of the problems that the scheme does not include everyone? It is compulsory, but does ...

I have a lot of sympathy with the views of my hon. Friend. The MailOnline is, of course, an onlin...

Will my right hon. Friend also confirm that the new scheme will allow for a higher maximum level ...

That is absolutely right. The minimum access cost will be £50, which means that everybody has acc...

Is it not the case that IPSO proposed its arbitration scheme only when a number of colleagues had...

I agree with the sentiment, which is that we have to ensure that the press remains free but also ...

I am pleased to hear the Secretary of State refer to a low-cost scheme. People have told me about...

Given that this is a Data Protection Bill, the review will consider data protection issues, but I...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way just before he moves off the subject of IP...

On the contrary, the scheme introduces new, compulsory, low-cost arbitration to ensure that peopl...

How binding is the arbitration, and how binding is the code of practice?

The arbitration is binding on the newspapers, meaning that anybody who wants to get redress from ...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way; he is being very generous in taking interventions....

No, that is not right. The statutory code of practice for journalists must be a consideration in ...

This is probably a good point for the Secretary of State to remind the House about Brian Leveson’...

Sir Brian was very clear in his letter to me. He stated that he wanted the inquiry to continue on...

I am glad that my right hon. Friend acknowledges the diligence and hard work of Sir Brian Leveson...

Yes, I will. My hon. Friend makes a very important point. We are discussing the rules around the ...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way; it is very generous of him. Some years ag...

I am aware of my right hon. Friend’s proposals, and I look forward to meeting her. Getting the de...

To go back to the key question of holding an inquiry, the Secretary of State rather implies that ...

I have a huge amount of respect for my right hon. and learned Friend. I was about to come on to p...

In answer to the point made by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Cla...

Yes, and my right hon. Friend has pre-empted what I was about to say, which is that the choice is...

I thank the Secretary of State for giving way, not least in view of what I am going to say. Is th...

I want to focus on the challenges we face now. That is my job as Secretary of State, and it is my...

Has this not been decided in the jewel of our legal system—that is to say, in front of a jury? So...

The police inquiries and the prosecutions that followed were exhaustive, so much so that in 2015,...

The Secretary of State has talked about victims of abuse, but he seems to have forgotten that Lev...

In the period in which people have raised concerns and said that they must be looked into in Leve...

Does the Secretary of State accept that many of the challenges that the press face now are the re...

I think the representations from the press themselves show that they are not looking for help of ...

The Secretary of State has made the very interesting point that he will try to address some of th...

Through new clause 23, as I have mentioned, we will require the Information Commissioner to condu...

I thank the Secretary of State for his generosity. Would it be fair for me to characterise that r...

I would characterise it as a review aligned with new clause 23, which we are bringing in for the ...

This is an extraordinary way to make policy. Will the Secretary of State explain to us why there ...

I have explained that new clause 23, which I hope the right hon. Gentleman supports, will bring i...

May I bring the Secretary of State back to the United Kingdom and to Manchester last year? The Ke...

New clause 23 is for the whole of the UK, which includes Northern Ireland. On the hon. Gentleman’...

The Secretary of State may not be aware of this, but my daughter, aged seven, was spoken to and r...

Yes, I absolutely will. This is the sort of thing that I am trying to put right. It is about maki...

Further to the point made by the hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) about the special rev...

If there are allegations of criminal activity—the hon. Gentleman has just made such an allegation...

A newspaper group has admitted liability for criminally hacking the computers of a former Army in...

In a way, the hon. Gentleman has summed up my case. My case is that we want a press that is free ...

The Secretary of State will correct me if I am wrong, but new clause 23, to which he has referred...

New clause 23 is about ensuring that in the future there is a review of activity from now onwards...

I rise to support in particular new clause 18, in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for...

May I add another voice? There is no journalist more respected on these shores than Sir Harold Ev...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. What strengthens his argument is the way in which the Se...

As reprehensible as those activities are, the fundamental point is that they are criminal acts. T...

Actually, it is not wrong to conflate press regulation with these matters, because the purpose of...

Is it not extremely relevant that one of the main aims of Leveson 2 was to investigate the relati...

My hon. Friend is precisely right. We heard a couple of different arguments from the Secretary of...

Are not culture and criminality very closely linked in these matters and the changes proposed by ...

That point is well put by the hon. Lady. If there is one ambition that we share in this House, it...

I am following what the right hon. Gentleman is saying with great interest. I think he is saying ...

For a very simple reason: we have evidence that bad behaviour is still ongoing. When the Secretar...

It is obviously me; I still do not get why the reopening of Leveson—

It is not a reopening.

Sorry, the reconvening. I do not get why the reconvening of Leveson would make things that are cu...

The point of inquiries is to get to the nub of the truth. There was much that the first half of t...

I know that the right hon. Gentleman thinks that people in Northern Ireland can be treated with t...

I am listening very jealously to the hon. Gentleman. I would like the privileges he has just secu...

I understand that new clause 23 applies to the whole United Kingdom. I live in the United Kingdom...

The hon. Gentleman may be assured by the process that he has been offered by the Secretary of Sta...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for being so generous in giving way. I want to follow u...

What I want to learn is the truth. I want to learn the truth about police-press collusion and I w...

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I am happy to hear from the Secretary of State why he thinks I am wrong.

The right hon. Gentleman is not making much progress. He is implying that broadcasters are under ...

Mr Ford’s activity was, but not Mr Ford’s allegations that the activity is already under way.

On a point of clarification, does the right hon. Gentleman know of any other scenario within the ...

The point is that this was well debated at the time and the argument presented by those on the Tr...

I was not in the House at the time, so correct me if I am wrong. Am I right in thinking that Bria...

Absolutely. It was a very delicate job. The structure put in place was designed to minimise any d...

Order. Before I call the next speaker, I remind colleagues that this debate has to end at four o’...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will take heed of your reminder about the time limit.

It...

The Select Committee, of which the right hon. Gentleman was a wonderful Chair, recently recommend...

The hon. Gentleman is an old friend—we sat together on the Committee for 10 years—and I have some...

Does my right hon. Friend think, deep in his heart, that anything has changed since IPSO was intr...

Deep in my heart, yes I do. As I was about to say, I believe that there is a different climate. O...

The fundamentally worrying thing is that this seeks to make a connection between local media orga...

Of course, I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, and I am glad that he focused on local newspaper...

My Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee colleague, the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lym...

I agree very much with my hon. Friend. Indeed, I would have found it far harder to make the argum...

I shall speak in support of new clause 18, which stands in my name and that of the right hon. and...

The right hon. Gentleman mentions what David Cameron, Nick Clegg and he did. It seems to have esc...

I give way to the hon. Gentleman’s constitutional knowledge, but I do not give way to him on mora...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful case, and he is right about morality and the promis...

Other people have asked, “Why can’t the police just do it?” That suggests that whenever there is ...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a very compelling argument—one that I am not turned off by—but...

If the new clause was agreed today, the Secretary of State would within three months have to trig...

I remember David Cameron, as I do the right hon. Gentleman, on this subject. It was one of David ...

That is a very good point, and I will come to it in a moment, because it is important to answer i...

I rise to support new clause 18, and I shall try to do so as briefly as possible as we are runnin...

Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

I do not want to take too long, but I will give way.

What my right hon. and learned Friend has said was the crux of David Cameron’s point. Political p...

I fear that my hon. Friend is probably right, although I should give some credit to my right hon....

The Government also asked the public what they thought. When they announced the results of the co...

I personally will give my right hon. and hon. Friends the benefit of the doubt—I am sure that eve...

It is a real pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) and ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No; there is not enough time.

It is because of the Government’s intransigence that we are d...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I want ...

I rise to speak in support of new clause 18, which my friend the right hon. Member for Doncaster ...

May I say what a sad day this is? I pay tribute to the Government Chief Whip, who has worked exce...

Does my hon. Friend recognise that condition B would still leave 85% of local newspapers covered ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. What he is saying is that businesses with ...

Does my hon. Friend find it odd that the lesser-off papers, as I think he phrased it, get away wi...

No, it is not, because it is designed to ensure that victims get access to justice. My hon. Frien...

Time is tight, so I will be brief. I rise to speak in support of new clause 18 because the Scotti...

I am following the hon. Gentleman’s argument closely. He is right to say that we need to ensure t...

The right hon. Gentleman may push that to the vote, but new clause 20 seeks to impose on Scotland...

The freedom of the press is so overwhelmingly precious that we should preserve it even if sometim...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will not because time is so short.

Let me move on to new clause 20, the Max Mosley amendm...

And from responsibility.

The freedoms and liberties that we hold so dear should be preserved, even when they are inconveni...

This has been an excellent debate. I wish to tell the House about a victim of press intrusion. Tw...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Government new clause 14—Destroyi...

I shall start by addressing the Government amendments—[Interruption.]

Order. Will people who are leaving the Chamber please do so quietly? The Minister is making an im...

I propose to start my remarks by addressing the Government amendments to strengthen the powers of...

Can the Minister give me more reassurance about the Home Office and its activity in this regard? ...

I will write to the hon. Lady and I hope to give her reassurance. This new higher bar concerns NH...

The Minister talks about a memorandum of understanding giving reassurance to the House. I refer h...

I will come on to the exemptions in terms of criminal activity and immigration in a wider context...

Will the Minister confirm that article 23 of the GDPR does not specify immigration?

It does not rule out immigration and it does allow the restriction of certain specified rights—no...

Has the Minister learnt nothing from the Windrush scandal? Here we have a Department of State tha...

Perhaps if I continue my remarks, I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman that of course lessons ...

Effective safeguards for crime prevention are already written into the Bill, which gives the Mini...

The right hon. Gentleman should know that different structures govern crime and immigration. I re...

I am shocked by what the Minister is saying. These provision were drafted before the Windrush sca...

I understand that it is a matter of interpretation. I also understand that the Home Office is con...

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Apparently not.

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I will give way for the last time to the right hon. Lady, if the right hon. Gentleman does not mi...

That is not what the Bill says. That may be what the Minister intends, but if that is what she in...

I shall have to write to the right hon. Lady once I have communicated with Home Office Ministers....

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are being invited to pass an important piece of leg...

I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point of order, but the fact is that the Minister, who is...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I might as well give way to the right hon. Member for Kingston a...

I am grateful to the Minister. To help other Members consider amendment 15, let me point out that...

I will continue to make some progress, as I feel that those points have already been made.

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What does that mean?

It is an established term. It is used in the Immigration Act 2014 and the Freedom of Information ...

Without this immigration exemption, might not the Home Office have to disclose sources of tip-off...

I think it highly likely that if, for example, someone were to undertake a full data subject revi...

Can the Minister give us a couple of examples to illustrate why these additional powers are neces...

We are permitted under GDPR to make these exemptions and are doing so in a very selective way and...

I commend my hon. Friend the Minister on amendment 24, which recognises that councils are often s...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. He and other colleagues across the House made these argu...

It is interesting that we are making lots of exemptions for the Government, parish councils, lawy...

My right hon. Friend raises several important points. As for the effect on small businesses, he w...

The Minister is being ever so generous in giving way not just to me, but to Members from across t...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his points. I want to reassure the small businesses that he ment...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way to my right hon. Friend in a second. I want to respond to my right hon. Friend th...

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I will come back to my right hon. Friend in a moment, but I did say that I would give way to my r...

I thank my hon. Friend for that information, but it was mainly complete news to me, as I suspect ...

I sympathise with the points that my right hon. Friend has raised. In fact, we have secured almos...

What the Minister said at the Dispatch Box a moment ago was also news to me. I have been campaign...

I quite agree. In fact, both the Secretary of State and I were small business owners before enter...

I am not worried about us; I am worried about small businesses.

In that case, I will proceed no further down that path. I am glad that I have been able to reassu...

I thank the Minister for that clarification, but I am not sure that it is clear enough. She will ...

I commend the hon. Lady for that observation, because she has a fair point. I will raise her conc...

May I start by welcoming the new powers for the Information Commissioner, which we called for in ...

My right hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Does he share my astonishment that the Government ...

My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head. The answer, of course, is that it is because of all thr...

I am that sure my right hon. Friend has received correspondence from constituents who are worried...

My hon. Friend is right. We have been at the receiving end of a huge number of data breaches in t...

The right hon. Gentleman makes some good points. I agree with the rights he is talking about, but...

There is no right to digital literacy under the Bill, which is why we propose the five rights as ...

I totally agree with the right hon. Gentleman’s point. He says that this is about newcomers and i...

I am not sure that that is the case. British citizens have confirmed rights under the GDPR—that i...

To pursue those rights, people also need legal aid, and in some circumstances, they are denied le...

Correct. In my first months at the Home Office, I spent a lot of time in immigration tribunals. I...

I very much agree with the points that the right hon. Gentleman is making. Does he agree that we ...

Those are real risks, which is why amendment 15 would delete such an important chunk of the Bill ...

Order. We have only 40 minutes left to debate this group and around 10 Members wish to speak. If ...

I rise to speak to new clause 12, which was tabled in my name, that of my colleague, the hon. Mem...

Yes, I can confirm absolutely that the statement that my hon. Friend quoted from the letter of 23...

I thank the Minister for that reassurance. There is much more that I could say, but I know that t...

I wish to speak briefly to amendment 15 and to say to those on the Front Bench that this is their...

The significance of the Bill and the importance of data and data protection to the economy and th...

After the exchange I had with the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (Chi Onwurah), I wa...

I am grateful to the Minister for that further clarification.

Amendments 20 and 21 get to t...

The Chair of the Select Committee is doing a brilliant job with his investigation, but the argume...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and that throws up two really important points.

I will be very brief, Madam Deputy Speaker, because we are incredibly tight for time.

There...

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I would give way, Minister, but I am very pushed for time.

I would like to voice my support...

I am conscious of the time, Madam Deputy Speaker, so I will not take too long.

This country...

The right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper) made a very powerf...

The Secretary of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is now back is in...

The right hon. Lady is absolutely right, and it is the Windrush generation who should be in our m...

I want to endorse new clause 4, which was so ably set out my right hon. Friend the Member for Bir...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Daniel Zeichner). I also pay ...

Like others, I would like to associate myself with the very powerful arguments that have been mad...

I echo the criticisms of the outrageous immigration exemption in the Bill and am pleased to add m...

I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes in order to make a decision about cert...

I can now inform the House that I have completed certification of the Bill, as required by the St...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind hon. Members that if there is a Division, only Members representing constituencies in En...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hope the House takes the time to consider very serio...

That is not a point of order.

Third Reading

Queen’s and Prince of Wales’s consent sig...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

What a great pleasure this is. The...

I refer hon. Members to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I want to thank...

It is a pleasure to be able to speak briefly at the conclusion of our proceedings on the Bill. I ...

My hon. Friend mentioned some people he wanted to thank, and there is one other person I want to ...

Yet another mention for Essex, where people will be absolutely delighted.

This is the Gover...