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HANSARDFacial Recognition SurveillanceMy noble friend is of course absolutely right.27 Jan 2020HANSARDFacial Recognition SurveillanceMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall repeat in the form of a Statement the Answer given by my honourable friend the Minister for Crime, Policing and the Fire Service in…27 Jan 2020HANSARDFacial Recognition SurveillanceThe noble Lord makes a very good point and I think I know to which cases he is referring. The police must be able to use the technology available for policing purposes, but within…27 Jan 2020HANSARDFacial Recognition SurveillanceThat is a very constructive suggestion. I am happy to arrange a briefing on this technology for any noble Lords who wish to have one.27 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillIf noble Lords will hear me through—when he says that it excludes children. I suggest that if that were challenged in court, the court might come to a different view. Furthermore,…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke before lunch. As the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, and my noble friend Lord Taylor of Holbeach have said, the British public rightly support…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillAs I explained in Committee, Clause 37 is in this Bill because the Government wished to reiterate their commitment. It is similar in almost every way to Section 17, except that it…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThat is correct. If the noble Lord has finished his intervention, I ask noble Lords to reconsider their intention to divide the House because I hope that I have provided the…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseWe now have in place a wide-ranging approach that negates the need for a separate, stand-alone alcohol strategy. We have announced a new addictions strategy and will roll out the…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseUnder EU regulations, companies do not have to put the calorie content on any drinks with an alcohol volume above 1.2%. I utterly agree with my noble friend that, if people knew…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseThe noble Lord makes a valid point. Alcohol harm has a cross-government response, involving departments such as health, education and the Home Office. If we do not work together,…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseI will try to answer the question differently. The noble Lord points to the wide variety of harms that alcohol causes—the economic cost is something like £21 billion a year. We…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseI am afraid that I do not have an update on the scheme for the noble Lord, but I concur with everything he said. I will write to him with an update and place a copy of the letter…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbusePublic Health England is monitoring how minimum-unit pricing has worked in Scotland and considering the impact of such a policy, which is similar to what the noble Baroness is…21 Jan 2020HANSARDHealth: Alcohol AbuseMy Lords, we are working to reduce alcohol-related harms with the NHS long-term plan, the prevention Green Paper, support for children of alcohol-dependent parents and action to…21 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI totally agree with my noble friend Lord Ridley. His point about ID card creep is also part of this point. It is exactly what happened to the Windrush generation. The Government…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThat is not the point that I was making. We used to have paper accompaniments to the licence and we no longer have them. We used to have a paper part of the licence and it was…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillThe point I was trying to make was that any agency that has access to information about proof of digital status has access only to the information for the purpose it is required…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillI will of course respond to my noble friend, and to other noble Lords who raised that point, but the point I was trying to make is that we have not had a paper part of the licence…20 Jan 2020HANSARDEuropean Union (Withdrawal Agreement) BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for his explanation of the amendment, but he will not be surprised to learn that we reject it. The amendment would require the…20 Jan 2020