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Data Protection Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour) in the House of Lords on Monday, 11 December 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Data Protection Bill [HL].

I thank the Minister for his response. I tabled the amendment to keep the issue live and to illustrate the problem we have here. In his response, he talked about the responsibilities of the commission and data protection responsibilities and how they may conflict, belonging to different bodies. That begins to highlight the problem that we potentially have here. You could have different regulators trying to enforce different bits of legislation, all on the statute book at the same time and equally legitimate. We have got a real problem here.

I look forward to the meeting on Thursday. It is very important that we have a meeting after that, though, with a much wider group of people from different parties and campaigns. It is a genuine problem that affects every political party represented in this House and the other place and those that are not in either House. There is no advantage here—it is a question of getting a procedure in place that allows political parties to campaign and do their job properly and fairly. Equally, it protects the volunteers so that they understand what they can and cannot do so that they do not unintentionally get themselves in difficulty. I look forward to the meeting, but there are one or two things to sort out before then. I hope that it can get done by Thursday but, if it cannot, we have the other

place. But it would be much better to sort it out at this end rather than the other end. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

787 cc1481-2 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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