My hon. Friend is precisely right. We heard a couple of different arguments from the Secretary of State this afternoon, but they boil down to this: “Inquiries are expensive and time consuming, and officials have a lot of better work to do, unless you live in Northern Ireland, in which case we will crack on with the job now.”
Data Protection Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Liam Byrne
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 May 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Data Protection Bill [Lords].
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