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Data Protection Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Low of Dalston (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 13 December 2017. It occurred during Debate on bills on Data Protection Bill [HL].

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that intervention, which I think supports my contention that there is nothing in the inclusion of the Impress code that strikes at the heart of press freedom.

As I was saying in concluding my remarks, it would be perverse if the Bill did not include a code such as that of Impress but one of an organisation that is not approved by the Press Recognition Panel and does not meet Leveson criteria, such as IPSO. I hope that the Government and the Minister accept that, but at the very least I hope that the Minister will be prepared to assure the House that the Government are not opposed to the Impress standards code being listed in the Bill.

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Reference

787 c1611 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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