Data Protection Bill [HL]

My Lords, as the Minister said in responding to the previous group of amendments, in order for sp...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for setting that out so fully and clearly. As I thin...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

30: Schedule 1, page 113, line 8, leave out “supervision...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

42: Schedule 1, page 115, line 19, leave out “su...

My Lords, at Second Reading I touched on the question of whether the Bill might be used as a vehi...

My Lords, I will speak to the amendment in my name. I am grateful to the noble Earl, Lord Attlee,...

My Lords, Amendment 89A in my name would remove the reference on page 137, line 14, to the IPSO e...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, and the noble Lord, Lord Skidelsky, ...

My Lords, I add my voice to those of my noble friends and the noble Earl, Lord Attlee. We sometim...

My Lords, I declare an interest in this group of amendments as executive director of Telegraph Me...

My Lords, my noble friend has made a very interesting speech, which is very helpful to the Commit...

My Lords, it is not a question of meeting the requirements of the Press Recognition Panel. It is ...

My Lords, that is extremely helpful to the Committee but I still do not understand how the state ...

My Lords, the Press Recognition Panel was set up by royal charter, underpinned by legislation in ...

The noble Lord, Lord Black, is being very helpful. The courts are supposed to be independent and ...

My Lords, I am going to give way to judicial friends who are probably waiting to speak and will b...

I remember Lord Campbell of Alloway once saying to me, “Never make a serious point after the dinn...

The noble Lord, Lord Black, paints an incredibly rosy picture of the state of press regulation in...

My Lords, so that my noble friend Lord Lester can come in in due order, I will speak to Amendment...

My Lords, I wonder whether it might be helpful for me to begin by trying to find what we can all ...

I wonder how relevant all those last bits are to the subject we are discussing.

The relevance of what I have just said is that Max Mosley, who funds Impress, is fanatical in his...

I have one more question. I thought we were discussing the substance of the argument, not the per...

I was not discussing personalities, but what happened in the case in Strasbourg. I was about to s...

I do not know how many more pages my noble friend has of this. Somewhere in it must be the recogn...

My Lords, I have tried to explain that the objection to the post-Leveson deal was that it was pun...

The noble Lord’s support for IPSO as being substantially better than the PCC is surprising. It ha...

My Lords, I am not here on behalf of IPSO; I am not counsel for IPSO. I have simply tried to expl...

The noble Lord has been very helpful to the Committee. He told us what the disadvantages would be...

I do not understand the question. It depends on which regime we are talking about. Right now, the...

I have never heard a more absurd argument than that we can trust IPSO because Sir Alan Moses is c...

I have been very careful not to traduce Impress or Max Mosley, nor will I seek to defend Alan Mos...

With great respect, we are concerned with the permanence of arrangements set up and put into prim...

My Lords, of course, we appreciate the contributions from all sides of the Committee on this issu...

The Minister said that it could change, but the word IPSO is actually in the Bill, so I do not qu...

Let me elaborate on the point for a moment to make it clear. IPSO did not exist in 1998; the edit...

I could not resist jumping up. I think the nub of the argument is the four letters IPSO. It is an...

The terms of the editors’ code are now referred to as the IPSO code, but I take the noble Lord’s ...

I shall be corrected in due course if I am wrong, but it think the position is that the editors’ ...

The noble Lord is quite right that it had its origin as the editors’ code before the PCC, but I a...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. It has lasted one hour and 25 minutes and ther...

My Lords, I want to make a couple of comments. I take exception to the suggestion that my amendme...

I should like to make just one point. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, came close to admitt...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.