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HANSARD Community TheatreIt is very good, Sir Jeremy, to have you in the Chair, not least because you know a thing or two about the Department, having played a role there for a while. I also congratulate…12 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The hon. Lady has tabled another amendment that calls for the Secretary of State to report to Parliament. I hope that I am proving that the requirement to put those reports in the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)If an area of research does not currently count as scientific research, it will not do so under the Bill. Researchers will benefit from having a clearer definition in legislation…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)First, I should have also thanked the Under-Secretary of State for Justice, my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd (Alex Davies-Jones), because she has been intimately involved…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I note that before the break we had the Sugababes, and that now we have “The Tempest”—I think the hon. Gentleman managed to get in a very brief quote, or I guess his version of…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I propose that the clause does not stand part of the Bill. Clause 140, which was tabled in the House of Lords, is a regulation-making power that would enable terms relating to…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I will try one more time to persuade the hon. Member, but I will be repeating myself. The Government are not expanding the meaning of scientific research. The Bill’s definition is…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I think the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge thinks I was trying to calumniate him earlier by suggesting that he does not pay for his music, but I was not making that…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I thought the debate might stray a little from the precise point my hon. Friend just made to into broader issues about young people’s use of smartphones and social media in…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I will speak only to Government amendment 16, which is highly technical—there will be a test on it afterwards. It removes the privilege amendment inserted at Lords Third Reading…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I should have put on the record, as the shadow Minister did, my gratitude and congratulations to Baroness Owen for her tenacity; that point was absolutely right.11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The amendments are the result of considerable discussion between officials, who have suddenly joined me as my inspiration, and the noble Baroness Owen. As promised in the other…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I beg to move amendment 28, in clause 141, page 173, line 27, leave out “or soliciting the creation of”. This amendment is consequential on Amendment 29.11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Clause 124 delivers on the Labour manifesto commitments to further support coroners, and procurators fiscal in Scotland, to access information held by online services after a…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Mr Turner, I have confidence in confidence alone; I have confidence in you—if we are going to do Julie Andrews. This is obviously a serious matter. The clause pretends to be just…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)The hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted said that this is her last contribution to the debate, so in the words of the “The Little Mermaid”, I suppose we are poor,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Clause 121 and schedule 15 make clear that information standards published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, as amended by the Health and Care Act 2022,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Further to that point of order, Mr Turner. The reason new clause 30 has not been selected is not that anybody has wanted to rule it inadmissible; it is simply because we are…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Excellent: we all agree that Baroness Owen has done a great piece of work for us, and we are grateful. Incidentally, I am also grateful to Ministry of Justice officials who worked…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I rise to speak primarily to new clause 27. The Government are committed to the independence of the regulator, which will continue to be accountable to Parliament. The Bill does…11 Mar 2025