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HANSARDPost Office Horizon Scandal: Compensation PaymentsMy Lords, the Minister has declared my interest as a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Attention has rightly focused on the contribution to be made by Fujitsu to…11 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, as so often, I listened with awe to the noble Baroness. Apart from saying that I agree with her wholeheartedly, which I do, there is really no need for me for me to add…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, in Committee, the noble Baroness the Minister said there was no consensus on the best way forward to amend the law to provide protection for ethical hackers trying to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, this one should be easy. Last week, we passed amendments that said that the public authorities, in recording data on matters including sex, should do so accurately. Some…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, as a former Chief Whip, I am all too well aware of the dangers of listening to a debate. However, I have to tell my noble friend Lord Camrose that I have been persuaded…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I share in the congratulations of my noble friend Lady Owen. It has taken me about 10 years to begin to understand how this House works and it has taken her about 10…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support my noble friend. I have a confession to make. Before this Bill came up, I foolishly thought that sex and gender were the same thing. I have discovered that…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I would be grateful if the Minister could confirm whether he accepts that, on some occasions, passports and drivers’ licences inaccurately reflect the sex of their holders.21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak very briefly. I have a great deal of agreement with what the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, the noble Lord, Lord Russell, and my noble friend Lord Bethell…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it has taken 34 years.18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise briefly but strongly to support my noble friend Lord Holmes. The CyberUp campaign has been banging this drum for a long time now. I remember taking part in the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. When, on 24 April this year, the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, proposed an amendment to…18 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to overturn the convictions of sub-postmasters or former Post Office employees convicted in relation to the Capture system.12 Dec 2024HANSARDPost Office: Capture SystemI am grateful to the Minister for that Answer. It is now clear from the Kroll report that the Minister referred to that the Post Office’s behaviour in relation to the Capture…12 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, one problem with cybersecurity is the fact that, if one company is spending money on it but is worrying that its competitor companies are not, they might feel that an…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am pleased that my noble friend Lord Lucas managed to make it, because I found him extremely persuasive and I agree with what he said. I shall return to the issue that…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 7, the first in this group is a probing amendment and I am extremely grateful to ISACA, an international professional association focused on IT governance, for…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I am grateful. I do not know about the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, but I wonder whether I might speak to Amendments 34 and 48.03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is always rather daunting following the noble and learned Lord, Lord Thomas. I think the safest thing to say, which has the added benefit of being true, is that I…19 Nov 2024