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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Clause 70 and schedule 4 introduce a new lawful ground for processing personal data under article 6 of UK GDPR, allowing organisations to process data for recognised legitimate…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It may assist the Committee to know that, when there is no great controversy about a clause and all I am doing is reminding people what is in the clause and the explanatory notes,…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 ] (Third sitting)First of all, I commend both hon. Members on their contributions. Let us face it; this is very difficult. It is a classic case of difficulty for the Government because, as the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)And are hated by others.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 ] (Third sitting)I rise mainly to speak to new clause 8, which was tabled by the hon. Member for Harpenden and Berkhamsted. It would require the Information Commissioner to review and publish an…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I am not sure that I have a great deal to add. I feel caught between the rocks of “You are going too far” and “You are not going far enough,” which suggests to me that what we are…11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)Don’t get me started.11 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I am afraid I do not accept the characterisation the hon. Lady has put on the clause. There is currently an exemption from notifying data subjects if it would constitute a…11 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 ] (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 ] (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)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)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)The Government are, of course, committed to the independence of the ICO. As the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge said, the recommendations about changing the structure were…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 ] (Third sitting)New clause 5 seeks to strengthen parliamentary oversight of regulations that could amend the recognised legitimate interest list or the provisions on automated decision making and…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)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 2025