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HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionIt is the cricket I like.01 May 2024HANSARDGambling AdvertisingMy Lords, I join with others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Foster, for bringing forward this topic for short debate. It is timely, and he is an indefatigable campaigner on this…25 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThe Committee will be relieved to know that I will be brief. I do not have much to say because, in general terms, this seems an eminently sensible amendment. We should…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, the Minister really did big up this section of the Bill. He said it would revolutionise this information service, that it would bring many benefits, has a green rating,…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am concerned. We get the principle behind NUAR, but is there an interface between NUAR and this other service—which, on the face of it, looks quite extensive—currently in place?…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI have a question. I am slightly puzzled about the difference between data collection and surveillance. Surely the collection and gathering of data would be to enable officials to…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, it took them half a day to discover where the hole had gone and what the damage was. The water flooded several main roads and there were traffic delays and the rest. So…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords—24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillIn this tripartite geography that the noble Lord described, the power—22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillCan we see the draft code of practice before Report?22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, Clause 109 makes changes to the regulations relating to the use of cookies, which, on the face of it, clarify and expand the PEC regulations. Some of the amendments seem…22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am interested in the Minister’s point about the flexibility the Government see in this clause, but I am not sure who in the end has the responsibility to lead on that…22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am not a gambling man. It is an interesting term. The Minister is suggesting that power rests equally among those three elements but it does not. The Secretary of State is the…22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillBefore the noble Lord gets there and we move too far from Amendment 154, where does the Government’s thinking leave us regarding a group of class actions? Trade unions take up…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI want to help the Minister. Perhaps he could give us some more detail on the nature of that consultation and the number of responses and what people said in it. It strikes me as…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am intrigued by the balance between what goes to a tribunal and what goes to the courts. I took the spirit behind the stand-part notice in the name of the noble Lord, Lord…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I have looked at the government amendments in this group and have listened very carefully to what the Minister has said—that it is largely about interpretation. There…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, this group has three amendments within it and, as the noble Lord, Lord Vaux, said, it is a disparate group. The first two seem wholly benign and entirely laudable, in…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThe Minister made the point at the end there that it is in the EU’s interest to agree to our data adequacy. That is an important point but is that what the Government are relying…17 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillCould we have a list of the people the noble Lord is talking about?17 Apr 2024