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HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Oh, all right.03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will start with my hon. Friend’s very last point, which is that we all agree that copyright law is clear—we do. I hope people understand that the Government’s position is clear…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I am not making an criticism of any individual Member of the House of Lords. I listened to the debate, and it was clear that people felt passionately and were arguing entirely in…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]We will make sure that they engage. In a strange way, I think that the campaign that has been led by the hon. Lady and others, in the House of Lords and elsewhere, will help to…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]“As soon as possible”, I am afraid. I know that there are lots of parliamentary terms for these matters, such as “imminently” and “soon” and so on. The difficulty is that there…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I will try to crack on.03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I am trying to be tidy in the way I respond to people, so first, I note that I did not respond to the Napster point. Quite a lot of people have made the point to me that we got…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will just finish this point, if the hon. Lady will allow me. In addition, we are still working through a huge number of consultation responses. To prescribe a draft Bill in…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Of course, it would be a delight.03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Of course, I understand the demand for us to act as swiftly as we possibly can, and that is our intention. One could argue that introducing a draft Bill, which would then be…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 49F. I am tempted to start with a quote from “Macbeth”— “When shall we three meet again?”— because I notice there is…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I have got to give way to the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon first, but then of course I will come back to my hon. Friend.03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will give way first to the hon. Member for Gosport, and then to the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Sir Julian Smith).03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I agree 100%. There would be absolutely no point in not having both sides—indeed, I would say several sides—of the argument in the room at the same time. Yesterday morning I had…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]And I want to be able to sit down as soon as I possibly can, but I am being prevented from doing so.03 Jun 2025HANSARD Data (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]My hon. Friend is entirely right about the issue of enforcement, although traditionally it is not for Governments to enforce the law. It is for the courts to do that, although in…03 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Switched Telephone Network Migration: Communications CampaignThe Government are publicly supporting the national telecare communications campaign, which has been funded by BT and Virgin Media O 2 and is being launched today. This campaign…02 Jun 2025HANSARDCreative Industries: BedfordThe most important thing we have done for Bedford is secure the Universal Studios theme park, which will be the biggest theme park in Europe and one of the biggest investments in…22 May 2025HANSARDUK-India Cultural Co-operation AgreementIf we were to get rid of the Department, one of the worst consequences would be our having to get rid of the Select Committee as well—and, for that matter, all those on the…22 May 2025HANSARDUK-India Cultural Co-operation AgreementThe programme of cultural co-operation, which the Secretary of State signed earlier this month, creates significant opportunities for the UK’s cultural sectors to reach a market…22 May 2025