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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Yes, we will be transparent about the transparency working groups—it is a good point. For that matter, I am happy—as are any of the Ministers—to give evidence to my hon. Friend’s…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Oh dear, she is. I am not sure about having world-class rugby players on the Committee, but it is one of the issues I am very happy to debate with my hon. Friend. We want to make…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]On births and deaths? Of course.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Tracey Emin and Russell Tovey have also invited me to Margate, so I think it is inevitable at some point. We are trying to get to a win-win, and we do not believe that is…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Oh dear, I have started something off.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]So you’re guilty?12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]And everybody else’s.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I am a DSIT Minister today, but the debate felt remarkably like the creative industries debate a couple of weeks ago, when I was responding as the Minister for Creative…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]Oh Lord! I was sort of trying to get to the end.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I am going to call the 25th amendment—or whatever we have—and say that I will write to the hon. Lady on that. We are getting a bit more technical than I am able to answer…12 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend makes a good point. We need to look at that specifically at the Committee stage of the Data (Use and Access) Bill. Perhaps he will sit on the Bill Committee.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]In Committee.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]That was the original point that I was trying to make, and I obviously did not make it as well as the hon. Member did, so I congratulate him on that. The hon. Member for Dewsbury…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will in a moment, if the hon. Member lets me finish this point. I know that people are sceptical because such a means does not exist at the moment. I have said before that the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I will in a moment. That is why I am keen on not selling the pass on that possibility by having undermined it before we get there.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]No, it is not. What is true is that, as I said, we want to get to a concrete idea of what transparency might look like. Not enough work has been done in the EU or in different…12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]He is, yes.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]No Paddington?12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]My mother-in-law is not.12 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [Lords]I hope the hon. Lady recognises that one of the changes we have made to the Bill is to insist on there being meaningful human involvement. That was not in the previous version of…12 Feb 2025