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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Sorry—it is probably my choice of language. I am saying that it is already in the Bill; it is not intended to be separate. I was talking about whether solely automated decisions…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]We should take them while we can. Like the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, I agree that the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas, made an excellent contribution. I appreciate this…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Yes, it would be helpful if we could write and set that out in more detail. Obviously the ICO’s report is fairly recent, but I am sure he has considered how the enforcement would…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I emphasise that we believe the safeguards are there. This is not a watering down of provisions. We are just making sure that the safeguards are more appropriate for the sort of…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I reassure the noble Lord that, as he knows, we are very hopeful that we will have data adequacy so that issue will not arise. I will write to him to set out in more detail when…16 Dec 2024HANSARDPublic Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for contributing to a very insightful debate. I particularly welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox, to her new role chairing the board of the…13 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemMy Lords, I pay tribute to the important work that the noble Lord has done in campaigning for justice for the postmasters—and indeed his ongoing work on that issue. We were…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemI thank the noble Lord for that. The proposal for the Horizon cases from the noble and learned Lord, Lord Burnett, related to the Lord Chancellor taking a power to refer cases to…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemMy Lords, I hope my noble friend will bear with us, because we are coming back with a response on the Capture system next week, so I am sorry I am not able to answer on the detail…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemThe noble and learned Lord raises important issues of law. He will know that the Law Commission is already looking at the law relating to criminal appeals and is due to report…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemI thank the noble Baroness for that. There is a difference between Horizon and the Capture system. The Capture system was not networked to a central system like Horizon was, which…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemThe noble Lord is absolutely right to raise this; it is an issue that relates not just to the Post Office and Horizon. We are very aware of that and are looking at whether other…12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemThe noble Lord is absolutely right: speed is of the essence. No postmaster who suffered from either of these schemes should have to wait longer than is absolutely necessary. We…12 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I have not seen that observation, but we will look at it. It goes back to my point that the provisions in this Bill are designed to be future facing as well as for the current…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I am not quite sure about the groupings, either, but let us go with what we have. I thank noble Lords who have spoken, and the noble Viscount, Lord Camrose, for his amendments. I…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]We will announce this in the usual way—in due course. I refer the noble Lord to the King’s Speech on that issue. I feel that noble Lords want more information, but they will just…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I am glad we are on the same page on all that. I now turn to the specifics of the amendments. I thank the noble Lords, Lord Freyberg and Lord Holmes, and the noble Viscount, Lord…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a great pleasure to be here this afternoon. I look forward to what I am sure will be some excellent debates. We have a number of debates on scientific research; it…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, when the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, opened his speech he said that he hoped that noble Lords would be made of strong stuff while he worked his way through it. I…10 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Let me put it this way: other things may be coming before it. I think I promised at the last debate that we would have something on copyright in the very, very, very near future.…10 Dec 2024