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HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)I spoke to amendment 105 in our last sitting. In summary, the Bill contains a requirement to consult the commissioner. The amendment seeks to formalise some of the independent…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 28 requires that every three years the Secretary of State publish a statement of strategic priorities for the commissioner to consider, respond to, and have regard to. The…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)The importance to any data protection regime of an independent, well-functioning regulator cannot be overstated. The ICO, which is soon to be the Information Commission as a…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)The Minister is right to quote the evidence session, but he will perhaps also remember that in a later session Ms Irvine from the Law Society of Scotland said that she was…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)I turn first to clauses 29 and 30. Codes of practice will become increasingly important as the remit of the ICO expands and modernises. As such, it is important that the codes are…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)The problem is that the Government are operating on the basis that everyone is acting in good faith, and although I am sure that the Minister and the current Secretary of State…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)The new threshold contained in the clause has been discussed in debates under clause 7, and I refer hon. Members to my remarks in those debates, as many of the same concerns…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)I welcome the clause, as did the majority of respondents who supported the proposal in the “Data: a new direction” consultation. As recognised by the Government’s response to…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)I understand that the clause contains legal clarifications relating to the interaction of data protection laws with other laws. On that basis, I am happy to proceed. Question put…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)As has been mentioned, a publicly available register of trusted digital verification services is welcome; as a result, so is this set of clauses. A DVS register of this kind will…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)Many digital verification services will, to some extent, rely on public authorities being able to share information relating to an individual with an organisation on the DVS…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)Trust marks are useful tools that allow organisations and the general public alike to immediately recognise whether or not a product or service has passed a certain testing…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)To oversee the DVS register, it is understandable that the Secretary of State may in some cases need to require information from registered bodies to ensure that they are…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause defines key terms in this part of the Bill, such as business data, customer data and data holder, as well as data regulations, customer and trader. These are key to the…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)I beg to move amendment 112, in clause 62, page 87, line 2, at end insert— “(3A) The Secretary of State or the Treasury may only make regulations under this section if— (a) the…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)Of all the provisions in the Bill, the ones on smart data are those that I am most excited about and pleased to welcome. The potential of introducing smart data schemes is…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for those assurances. I am reassured by his comments, and I am happy to beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn .…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)As previously mentioned, and with the caveats that I expressed when I was discussing my amendments, I am extremely pleased to be able to welcome this part of the Bill. In essence,…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)The measures in these clauses largely mirror 62 and 63, but they refer to business data rather than customer data. I therefore refer back to my comments on clause 62 and 63 and…18 May 2023HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)Clauses 66 to 72 provide for decision makers and enforcers to help with the operation and regulation of new smart data regimes. As was the case with the digital verification…18 May 2023