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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 4 provides regulation-making powers that allow the relevant Secretary of State and the Treasury to require the publication of business data or the provision of business…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)This clause applies when regulations provide for a person, referred to as a decision maker, to decide whether third-party recipients satisfy conditions allowing them to be…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will respond first to the contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Several colleagues have referred to the issue of accidental asset strikes,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will have to write to the hon. Member on whether we will consult on those measures specifically. They are certainly being considered by us, but that is a different matter.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)On behalf of everyone in the nation. Well, Thames Water does not cover the whole nation, although it gets quite a lot of water from Wales, which we are very happy to provide. The…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Well, it is certainly a vulnerability. I started the restoration and renewal process when I was Deputy Leader of the House many years ago. Many people told me that one of the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Now we are on a winning streak. Clause 2 provides the principal authority for the relevant Secretary of State or the Treasury to establish smart data schemes in relation to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Even without inspiration, I agree with everything the hon. Lady said. I would add the fact that to park a car in lots of places in the country now we have to go online using a…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The clause creates a permissive information gateway. This will enable public authorities to share information relating to an individual with registered digital verification…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I think that I will have to write to the hon. Gentleman. We have agreed the amendment, so that is slightly rehashing the debate. I am happy to write to him and he will have that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clauses 46, 47 and 48 relate to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, the Welsh Revenue Authority and Revenue Scotland respectively. The clauses provide additional safeguards to any…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The thing is, it is already enshrined in law under the Equality Act 2010. That is perfectly adequate for the purposes of the Bill—it protects all the characteristics that the hon.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am sure Members were wondering when we were going to get to a code of practice, and this is the clause that introduces it. Clause 49 requires the Secretary of State to prepare…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I beg to move amendment 10, in clause 28, page 30, line 32, leave out subsections (3) and (4). This amendment removes subsections which were inserted at Report stage in the Lords.04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)We will be talking about clauses 28 to 31, but now I will speak to Government amendment 10 to clause 28, along with Government amendment 11. Several Members may wish to speak to…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will speak to clauses 61 to 65 and to schedule 3. As somebody who has written history books, I have always found it fascinating that it has taken us a very long time to update…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I was under the impression that all the clauses in this part were grouped. It might be convenient for the Committee if they were.04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)As I was saying, clause 63 inserts proposed new section 38B of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, which enables the Minister to make regulations in relation to duties…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Yes. Question put and agreed to. Clause 49 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 50 Trust mark for use by registered persons Question proposed, That the clause…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)We are already committed to a strategy; I am not sure whether we need a road map for the strategy, and I would prefer us not to have such a thing in the Bill. It would also be…04 Mar 2025