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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, if we are to live in a data-rich world, we really need a set of well-understood, good definitions for the basic information we are collecting. At the moment, age is…28 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much encourage the Government to go down this road. Everyone talks about the NHS just because the data is there and organised. If we establish a structure like…28 Jan 2025HANSARDDevon and Torbay Combined County Authority Regulations 2024My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s exposition of these SIs. I completely understand why we are moving in this direction: greater efficiency and effectiveness. I very much…27 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 6 in my name I will also to speak to Amendment 8. This section of the Bill deals with digital verification services, and the root word there is…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken on this. I actually rather liked the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones—if I am allowed to reach…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]However, the truth should come before personal feelings, particularly when looking at data and the fundamentals of society. I hope that the noble Lord will take parliamentary…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, the regulator quite clearly needs a standard against which to judge. Public interest is the established one in FOI, medicine and elsewhere. It is the standard that is…21 Jan 2025HANSARDHigher Education Regulatory ApproachMy Lords, I very much welcome what the Minister says. I look forward to the legislation when it comes, and to it being effective. Would she take a look at extending the provisions…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support what the noble Baroness, Lady Freeman, said. Her maiden speech was a forewarning of how good her subsequent speeches would be and how dedicated she is to…21 Jan 2025HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for that extensive answer from the Minister. If I have anything that I hope that she might add, I will write to her afterwards. My heart is always in the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much support the thrust of these amendments and what the noble Lord, Lord Knight, said in support of and in addition to them. I declare an interest as a current…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, having a system such as this would really focus the public sector on how we can generate more datasets. As I said earlier, education is an obvious one, but so is mobile…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, environmental data, specifically such things as biodiversity data, is a key component to getting policy in this area right. To do so, we need to make sure that all the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I very much support these amendments. I declare an interest as an owner of written copyright in the Good Schools Guide and as a father of an illustrator. In both…18 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I have Amendment 201 in this group. At the moment, Action Fraud does not record attempted fraud; it has to have been successful for the website to agree to record it. I…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful for the answers the noble Baroness gave to my amendments. I will study carefully what she said in Hansard , and if I have anything further to ask, I…16 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I have Amendment 135A in this group. The Bill provides a new set of duties for the Information Commissioner but no strategic framework, as the DPDI Bill did. The Information…16 Dec 2024