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HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025That the draft Regulations and Order laid before the House on 2 April and 15 May be approved. Relevant document: 23rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyI tried to answer my noble friend’s initial Question as best as I could. Procurement is another issue we are looking at. In the Government’s forward look to policing, we are…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyI understand the noble Baroness’s concerns, and I understand that people want to ensure that there is a legal framework for interpreting not just facial recognition but other such…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyThere has been some discussion of the algorithms and their use. There were discussions with South Wales Police in particular, who were dealing with that issue. Those discussions…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyMy Lords, facial recognition is a valuable tool that helps the police identify offenders and protect the public. While its use is governed by existing laws, the Government are…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyI am grateful to the noble Lord for his support for a range of surveillance methods. CCTV, for example, is one of the greatest crime prevention tools brought in in the last 30…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyIt is interesting that the noble Baroness mentions that she has been to a meeting with Minister Johnson and the Metropolitan Police. That is part of a regular series of…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyMy noble friend touches on important issues and again, I refer to the point I made earlier to the noble Baroness. A survey of the existing use of facial recognition technology…02 Jul 2025HANSARDPolice: Facial Recognition TechnologyThere is a range of legislation that provides protections for the public at large, including data protection legislation and equality and human rights law, along with the…02 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Act 2003 (UEFA Women’s European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2025Essentially—this goes back to the point that the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, made—the power in the Licensing Act for the Secretary of State was never designed to be a blanket power;…01 Jul 2025HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025My Lords, it is a pleasure to be here today to bring forward these regulations, which are enabled by the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, during the passage of which some nine years…01 Jul 2025HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Investigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025 Relevant…01 Jul 2025HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025I am grateful to the noble Earl for that intervention. The decision that the Home Office has taken is that it is for organisations to apply. With the ambulance trusts, once we…01 Jul 2025HANSARDLicensing Act 2003 (UEFA Women’s European Football Championship Licensing Hours) Order 2025My Lords, I move seamlessly from investigatory powers to the European football championships, as is the wont of the Home Office. This order was laid before Parliament on 15 May.…01 Jul 2025HANSARDInvestigatory Powers (Communications Data) (Relevant Public Authorities and Designated Senior Officers) Regulations 2025That is a fairly valid challenge. The decision to apply is for the ambulance trusts. They were initially all included. Some have determined that they have not used this power, and…01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationPerhaps the noble Lord could ask the previous Home Office Ministers under the last Administration, because all the contracts with the current asylum accommodation were signed by…01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationWe are getting on quite well, actually. If noble Lords will bear with me, the supported accommodation as of 31 March 2025 is 15% lower than at the end of 2024 and 42% lower than…01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationThe Government set a clear direction of travel on reducing hotels, tackling the asylum backlog, trying to prevent people coming to this country unfairly in the first place and,…01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationI am grateful to the noble Lord. We took an early decision, as he knows, to work with the local authority, Kent, to ensure that safeguarding was in place, and that is in place…01 Jul 2025HANSARDMigrants: Hotel AccommodationThe Government, as the noble Lord knows, have been discussing a number of matters with a number of countries. I cannot bring him up to date today on the final details of those…01 Jul 2025