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HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am confident that, somewhere, there is a moral philosopher and legal scholar who can explain why this amendment is not part of the next group on NUAR but, in the…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I start by reflecting on the strangeness of the situation—to me, anyway. Here we all are again, in slightly different seats but with a largely similar Bill. As I said at…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that explanation. I see the point she makes that, in existing legislation, these terms are used. I wonder whether there is anything we can do better to…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendments 3, 4 and 20 seek to probe the Government’s position on the roles of the Secretary of State and the Treasury. Amendment 6 seeks to probe whether the Treasury…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that explanation. I am pleased to hear that these are standard procedures. Will she put that in writing, in a letter to me, explaining and setting it out…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank my noble friends Lord Lucas and Lord Arbuthnot for their Amendments 5, 34, 48, 200 and 202. They and other noble Lords who have spoken have powerfully raised some crucial…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am delighted that the Government have chosen to take forward the smart data schemes from the DPDI Bill. The ability seamlessly to harness and use data is worth…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, this sequence of amendments is concerned with the publication and availability of guidance. Decision-makers are individuals responsible for deciding if a person has…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord for his answers. I understand what he says, although I would be grateful if either he or the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, could summarise those points in…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]It would be reassuring if the Minister could share with us some of the meetings that the Secretary of State or Ministers are having with those bodies on the subject of these…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 47 is in another slightly peculiar group, but we will persevere. It aims to bolster the cybersecurity framework for digital verification services providers.…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister and my noble friend Lord Markham for those comprehensive and welcome comments. I would certainly like to take up the Minister’s offer of a technical briefing…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I will address the amendments proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, and the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. I have nothing but the deepest respect for their…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for that answer. Of course, I take the point that to publish the security arrangements is somehow to advertise them, but I am somehow not yet altogether…03 Dec 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]Yes, that would be great. I thank the Minister. I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.03 Dec 2024