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HANSARDData (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)I beg to move, That— 1. the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 9.25 am on Tuesday 4 March) meet— (a) at 2.00 pm on Tuesday 4 March; (b) at 11.30 am and 2.00 pm…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 ] (Second sitting)Sorry, the hon. Member will have to repeat that question. I did not hear it, I am afraid.04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)These clauses are all about the digital verification service register. Clause 32 requires the Secretary of State to establish and maintain a publicly available register of digital…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 ] (First sitting)This clause allows regulations to require the creation of interface bodies. These bodies may provide facilities and services, set standards or make related arrangements for data…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 11 enables decision makers, interface bodies, enforcers and others to charge fees to alleviate their costs, which is obviously an important part of the Bill. It may also…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The purpose of the clause is to allow the Government to provide financial assistance where it is appropriate to do so. Although the Government expect schemes to be self-financing,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I beg to move amendment 7, in clause 14, page 19, line 3, at end insert— “(ba) requiring section 2(4) actors described in the regulations to use a prescribed interface, comply…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Again, it might be more convenient if I speak to the clauses first and come back to the amendments, because then it is more self-explanatory, but I may need to speak at greater…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am not sure whether we have specifically—I am looking to my left for inspiration. I am getting vague inspiration, although it is remarkably non-productive. If the hon. Member…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 20 allows regulations to provide that the processing of information they require does not breach obligations of confidence or other restrictions on processing information.…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I thought that this discussion might take a little longer. Much as I am tempted to dally on clauses 25 and 26, clause 25 basically defines various terms used in part 1 of the…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Part 2 of the Bill is about digital verification services. Those are obviously a very important part of the Bill; they lay out how we want to move into a new era and they are…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)No, they don’t.04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I need to make it absolutely clear, for a start, that the element of clause 45 that we are removing—subsection (6)—makes no reference to sex or gender at all. The words do not…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clause 28 requires the Secretary of State to prepare and publish the digital verification service framework, which will set out rules for the provision of digital verification…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The clause provides for the Secretary of State to make regulations regarding the payment of fees for applications to the register and applications for supplementary notes. The…04 Mar 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I am conscious that we are steaming towards the end of part 2 of the Bill. It is 11.10 am, and we could go on until 11.30 am, but it might be convenient for Members if we were to…04 Mar 2025