The fundamentally worrying thing is that this seeks to make a connection between local media organisations having to join the state regulator and their facing, if they do not, the awful costs that they might have to pay even if they win a court case. The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Liam Byrne) described that as an incentive, but it is not—it is coercion. It is only an incentive inasmuch as a condemned man on the gallows has an incentive not to stand on the trapdoor.
Data Protection Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Heaton-Jones
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 9 May 2018.
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and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Data Protection Bill [Lords].
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