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HANSARDProperty (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 2025HANSARDCreative Industries: Rights Reservation ModelMy Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lord Foster of Bath on securing the debate today and on his penetrating introduction, which included a number of extremely important…30 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister. There is clearly no easy answer. I think we were part-expecting a rather binary answer, but clearly there is not one, so we look forward to the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, all our speakers have made it clear that this is a here-and-now issue. The context has been set out by noble Lords, whether it is Stargate, the AI Opportunities Action…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, we have had some discussion already this week on data centres. The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, is absolutely right to raise this broad issue, but I was reassured to hear…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have the very dubious privilege of moving the final amendment on Report to this Bill. This is a probing amendment and the question is: what does retrospectivity mean?…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, for retabling his Committee amendment, which we did not manage to discuss. Sadly, it always appears to be discussed rather late in…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Harding. I have added a few further words to my speech in response, because she made an extremely good point. I pay…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I can be pretty brief. We have had some fantastic speeches, started by the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, with her superb rallying cry for these amendments, which we 100%…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 38 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes. More than ever before, the commissioner, alongside other regulators, is being pressured to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank the Minister for that dusty reply. I wonder whether he has been briefed about particular legal cases, such as Killock or Delo, where the judiciary themselves…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 46 seeks a review of court jurisdiction. As I said in Committee, the current system’s complexity leads to confusion regarding where to bring data protection…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support Amendments 47 and 48, which I was delighted to see tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Holmes and Lord Arbuthnot. I have long argued for changes to the Computer…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, before the noble Viscount sits down, I wonder whether he has actually read the amendment; it calls for a review, not for transfer. I think that his speech is a carryover…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I can only support what the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, had to say. This is essentially unfinished business from the Online Safety Act, which we laboured in the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, it is clear that Amendment 67 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, is very much of a piece with the amendments that were debated and passed last week. On these…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I too am lost in admiration for the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron—still firing on all cylinders at this time of night. Current law is clearly out of touch with the reality…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate. I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, on having brought forward these very important amendments. It has been a…28 Jan 2025