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HANSARDCopyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024My Lords, I will start by saying that I am delighted that the Minister is treating this as one of her first engagements back in the House; how flattering to have her here at this…12 Feb 2025HANSARDCopyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024That this House regrets that the Copyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024, laid before the House on 13 November 2024 (SI…12 Feb 2025HANSARDCopyright and Performances (Application to Other Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I do not doubt her motives at all; it is just the outcome that we are not happy with. I thank those who have spoken in favour of…12 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Leong, for his introduction, but I am slightly baffled by this SI. I looked up whether the Commons had had its debate on it and found that…10 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024My Lords, the Minister has not mentioned the point raised in the Explanatory Memorandum, which was designed, I think, to give us comfort about cybersecurity and data: the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024Out of scope? On the basis that we are being asked to exempt automated vehicles, is it not proper that we ask for reassurance about automated vehicles and the implications for…10 Feb 2025HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (Security Requirements for Relevant Connectable Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2024I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but, frankly, this is the same instrument as the one that was debated last May. Nothing has changed apart from the lack of parliamentary time.…10 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill [HL]My Lords, the Bill is part of a wider debate that, as was the case with the previous Private Member’s Bill today, from the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, we had as part of the Data…07 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Earl for taking the trouble to read my Bill quite carefully. I shall obviously dispute various aspects of it with him in due course; however, I welcome…07 Feb 2025HANSARDNon-Consensual Sexually Explicit Images and Videos (Offences) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is an absolute pleasure to take part in the Third Reading of this Bill. I give many congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, on this rare and much-deserved…07 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authority Algorithmic and Automated Decision-Making Systems Bill [HL]That the Bill do now pass.07 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a privilege to be part of the tech team and a pleasure to welcome a government amendment for a change. Although some of us might quibble with the rather convoluted…05 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I think we have had quite enough excitement for one day. I want to thank colleagues all Benches—they know who they are—for making the fairly gruelling passage of this…05 Feb 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I think we have an open-and-shut case. I start by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, who has recruited a formidable group of Members of this House in support…05 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I also thank our staff, particularly our clerk Matthew Burton, and all the evidence givers, particularly Professor Sarah Green, as the Chair indicated. I also thank the…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I think we are talking about the Long Title here. As usual, the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, and I are singing from the same hymn sheet, because it is about signals. The…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am coming down on exactly the same side as the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, once again. To weigh the amendments on retroactivity and retrospectivity in the balance,…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]I also think that the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, has done us a service, because we have been so mired in the detail of the Bill and its legalities that it is very easy to forget…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been really interesting. This is the beginning of a debate on this amendment, and of all the amendments put forward by the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, this is…03 Feb 2025HANSARDProperty (Digital Assets etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, we are dangerously close to agreeing on all the amendments, which is never a good thing. All noble Lords so far have agreed that these amendments absolutely go to the…03 Feb 2025