Data Protection Bill [HL]

My Lords, if the House will indulge me, having heard someone who described herself earlier as a f...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for making her debut in the Committee stage and to ...

My Lords, I am still processing the compliment that has been paid to me. If I were standing for e...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

65: Schedule 1, page 121, line 36, leave out from “proce...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

69: Clause 10, page 6, line 12, leave out “supervision” ...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

71: Clause 10, page 6, line 16, leave out “this section”...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

71ZA: After Clause 10, insert the following new Clause—

“Re...

My Lords, I thank the Open Rights Group for pushing for this amendment, and particularly the Publ...

My Lords, I am completely discombobulated because the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, has hidden himself ...

My Lords, perhaps I may intervene between the two Front Benches. I wish to ask my noble friend on...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, has raised some important points, which refer back to o...

My Lords, as we have heard, Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 requires online providers of p...

My Lords, I am very grateful for my noble friend’s reply. With his leave, I will digest it overni...

I believe that during our previous day in Committee, I offered to meet my noble friend.

I am very grateful and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

71A: After Clause 11, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I was not referring to this amendment specifically in commenting on Amendment 71ZA, but...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, for raising this important subject. I ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for engaging with the issues and for responding so p...

My Lords, Clause 12 deals primarily with credit reference agencies. It is not an area that I thin...

My Lords, as your Lordships know, before giving somebody credit, lenders such as banks, loan comp...

I am grateful to the Minister for her response. I think we agree that any impact on one’s credit ...

Moved by

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen

72: Clause 13, page 7, line 9, leave out “prohib...

Moved by

Lord Clement-Jones

74: Clause 13, page 7, line 11, at end insert—

“( )...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 74, I will also speak to Amendments 74A, 75, 77, 119, 133A, 134 and...

My Lords, we have a number of amendments in this group and I want to associate myself with many o...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 75 in particular, but the whole issue of automated decision-making...

My Lords, I too want to say a word about Amendment 75. The Human Rights Act trumps everything. To...

My Lords, my name is attached to two of these amendments. This is a very difficult subject in tha...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, who introduced this interesting debate; of ...

My Lords, I hesitate to interrupt the Minister, but it is written down in the recital that such a...

My Lords, I was coming to recital 71. In the example I gave, it seems odd to suggest that the NHS...

Would the Minister like to give chapter and verse on how that distinction is made?

I think that “chapter and verse” implies “written”—and I will certainly do that because it is imp...

I apologise for interrupting again. This is a bit like a dialogue, in a funny sort of way. If the...

I will. I had some inspiration from elsewhere on that very subject—but it was then withdrawn, so ...

As the Minister may be about to move on from that, I think he is saying that the phrase, “engages...

Automated processing could do that. However, with the appropriate safeguards we have put in the B...

My Lords, I rather hope that the Minister has not been able to persuade noble Lords opposite. Cer...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke in the debate. It has been wide-ranging but extremely...

I highlight that we do not disagree with that. I will study carefully what my noble friend Lord L...

My Lords, I would not want to give that impression. None of us are gloom merchants in this respec...

My Lords, if it is mentioned in the GDPR, then it is there.

Yes, my Lords, but it is in the recital, so I think we come back again to whether the recitals fo...

Moved by

Lord Ashton of Hyde

76: Clause 13, page 7, line 15, at beginning insert “sim...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

78A: After Clause 13, insert the following new C...

My Lords, it always used to be said that reaching the end of your Lordships’ day was the graveyar...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, has been admirably brief in the pre-dinner minutes befo...

My Lords, having restrained myself for four and a half hours and having done a huge amount of wor...

My Lords, it is a pity I have to be brief, but I will try. The amendment is interesting and worth...

My Lords, I support the amendment and its very simple principle. We live in a complex world and t...

My Lords, clearly the Royal Society has been talking to other people. I hope that someone from th...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, has raised the important issue of data ethics. I am gra...

We like to hold the Government to their manifesto commitments occasionally.

Tonight the noble Lord can because the Secretary of State is leading on this important matter. Sh...

Before the noble Lord, Lord Stevenson, responds—he will probably make this point better than I ca...

I cannot agree with the noble Baroness’s point. However, I accept that that is a possibility and ...

My Lords, I think that is a yes.

The noble Baroness asked whether it would be enshrined in this Bill. As I tried to explain, it wi...

That is a no, then. Oh well, these things happen. You are up one minute and then down. We cannot ...