Debate on bill on Tuesday, 15 May 2018, in the House of Commons, led by Matt Hancock. The answering member was Lord Watson of Wyre Forest.

Data Protection Bill [Lords]

Programme motion (No. 3) on proceedings relating to the consideration of Lords messages and subsequent stages. Agreed to on question. Consideration of Lords message. Motion to disagree with Lords amendment 62B. Agreed to on division (301 to 289).

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 641
Session: 2017-19
Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Legislative stage: Lords amendments
Procedure: Programme motions
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Related items: Data Protection Bill (HL) 2017-19. Lords amendment instead of words left out by a Commons amendment.
Monday, 14 May 2018
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions: Matt Hancock | 641 cc168-9 (Link to this contribution)
I beg to move,
That this House disagrees to Lords Amendment No. 62B proposed instead of the...; Ian Lucas | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Secretary of State confirm that amendment (c) will allow him to judge the effectiveness, ...; Matt Hancock | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
No. The purpose of amendment (c) is to make sure that a report is laid on the effectiveness of th...; Richard Drax | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
Just to follow up on the question about the Secretary of State being able to examine the paperwor...; Matt Hancock | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
That will be up to the Government of the day. We are trying to ensure that the welcome moves by I...; Ian Lucas | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman has just said that it would be up to the Government of the day. The whol...; Matt Hancock | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
No. I do not want to see amendment 62B from the other place in the Bill precisely because I do no...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 c169 (Link to this contribution)
There is a slightly wider constitutional issue, which I hope he will get on to a minute. We passe...; Matt Hancock | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
I think it is very important that the elected House, having considered the question and supportin...; Lord Redwood | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
I fully support what the Secretary of State is trying to do. Does he see a rather worrying undemo...; Matt Hancock | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
I support the Salisbury convention: if something is in the party of government’s manifesto and th...; Anne Main | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
Can the Minister confirm that the noble Baroness is factually wrong and that the House does have ...; Matt Hancock | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
I have a lot of sympathy with what my hon. Friend says. The best course of action now, given wher...; Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 641 c170 (Link to this contribution)
I will not venture into this attempt to rewrite the British constitution to stop the House of Lor...; Matt Hancock | 641 c171 (Link to this contribution)
I welcome the fact that we have self-regulation of the press and that IPSO has been set up. Unlik...; Nadine Dorries | 641 c171 (Link to this contribution)
Nobody in this or the other House should ever fail to stand up and question the press. We know wh...; Matt Hancock | 641 c171 (Link to this contribution)
I agree comprehensively with my hon. Friend, who set it out incredibly well.
I want to take...; Ian Lucas | 641 c171 (Link to this contribution)
In his intervention, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr Clarke) just talked abo...; Matt Hancock | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
No, I do not. Our proposal, which does not involve statutory regulation, is the best solution to ...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
This is a fundamental point. The big difference between this and the way we regulate agencies and...; Matt Hancock | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
Furthermore, IPSO has now been granted powers to require front-page corrections—we saw it recentl...; Andy Slaughter | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
IPSO and its so-called compulsory arbitration are wholly inadequate. The only independent redress...; Matt Hancock | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman has clearly not been following the debate. IPSO’s introduction of low-cost arb...; Christine Jardine | 641 c172 (Link to this contribution)
We all recognise and applaud the examples the Secretary of State has given, but they do not excus...; Matt Hancock | 641 c173 (Link to this contribution)
If that is the hon. Lady’s concern, she should vote with the Government this afternoon. She shoul...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 cc173-4 (Link to this contribution)
I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.
Last week, c...; John Grogan | 641 c174 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend go a little further? Is he saying that the Labour party has dropped section 4...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c174 (Link to this contribution)
I am saying that, although my hon. Friend stood on a manifesto commitment to push section 40, I c...; Mike Wood | 641 c174 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is suggesting that it is somehow the tabloid press that is objecting and campa...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c174 (Link to this contribution)
It is true that The Guardian was very critical of section 40, and, indeed, its pioneering former ...; Mike Wood | 641 c174 (Link to this contribution)
Will the hon. Gentleman give way again?; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c175 (Link to this contribution)
I am afraid that other Members want to speak, and we have a limited amount of time. I tried to an...; 641 c175 (Link to this contribution); Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 641 c176 (Link to this contribution)
Order. Before I call the next speaker, may I remind colleagues that this is a short debate? I hop...; Peter Bottomley | 641 c176 (Link to this contribution)
I want briefly to say three things.
First, I have brought four successful libel actions aga...; Brendan O'Hara | 641 cc176-7 (Link to this contribution)
Like many others, I read with interest the Government’s proposals published this morning in respo...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 cc177-8 (Link to this contribution)
I rise briefly to support my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on his submission today fro...; Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 641 c178 (Link to this contribution)
Does my right hon. Friend not accept that one of the purposes of examining what went wrong in the...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 c178 (Link to this contribution)
I believe that most, if not all, of that was done in the original Leveson inquiry. My right hon. ...; Peter Bottomley | 641 c178 (Link to this contribution)
An important correction is that it was not actually breaking the law. It exposed itself to substa...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 cc178-9 (Link to this contribution)
I take that correction. Maybe I was going a bit over the top. None the less, that is itself a mea...; Ed Miliband | 641 cc179-180 (Link to this contribution)
I am glad to follow the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr Duncan Smith), bec...; Iain Duncan Smith | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
I am listening carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, and I put this point to him....; Ed Miliband | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
I have two answers to that. First, this has been tested, and there were no fines, no systematic i...; Lord Redwood | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
But does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the media landscape has been transformed out of ...; Ed Miliband | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. This is why social media and fake news are at ...; Paul Farrelly | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
MailOnline —which, through massive investment, has possibly become the English-speaking world’s m...; Ed Miliband | 641 c180 (Link to this contribution)
What it says is that compulsory arbitration, which is what is being promised as part of the IPSO ...; George Howarth | 641 c181 (Link to this contribution)
Going back to the example of the bereaved family and the gross intrusion into their privacy and g...; Ed Miliband | 641 c181 (Link to this contribution)
My right hon. Friend makes an important point.
I hope that right hon. and hon. Members acro...; Peter Bone | 641 c181 (Link to this contribution)
I find myself in a difficult position, because I have come into the Chamber still undecided on ho...; Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 641 c181 (Link to this contribution)
The manifesto appears to have had quite an effect on my hon. Friend. I hope that he will tell me ...; Peter Bone | 641 c181 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend the Father of the House for that. It is true th...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c182 (Link to this contribution)
The hon. Gentleman is a great man and I admire his courage and fortitude in reading that manifest...; Peter Bone | 641 c182 (Link to this contribution)
I will end soon because others want to speak. I just wanted to make the point that I voted agains...; John Grogan | 641 c182 (Link to this contribution)
Like the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr Bone), I have been contemplating the relationship bet...; Paul Farrelly | 641 c182 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend give way?; John Grogan | 641 cc182-3 (Link to this contribution)
I will not because there is little time. I am a great fan of the BBC, but it was involved in the ...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s comments. He stood on two manifestos—for the 2015 general elec...; John Grogan | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
That is very helpful. When my hon. Friend, as well as my right hon. Friends the Members for Birmi...; Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
rose—; John Grogan | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
I will not give way because I am being urged to conclude. We should not look back in anger at all...; Peter Heaton-Jones | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
I will be extraordinarily brief because not much more needs to be said. The House’s view is settl...; Crispin Blunt | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
Will my hon. Friend give way?; Peter Heaton-Jones | 641 c183 (Link to this contribution)
I will not because time is so brief. The will of the House is settled and the other place should ...; Ian Lucas | 641 c184 (Link to this contribution)
I want to say a word about Sir Brian Leveson. The first part of his inquiry was greatly valued an...; Mike Wood | 641 c184 (Link to this contribution)
The role of the House of Lords is to scrutinise, to inquire and, where possible, to improve. That...; Christine Jardine | 641 c184 (Link to this contribution)
I believe the other place has given us a compromise to reassure those who are concerned about sec...
Subjects: Data protection Arbitration Ethics Journalism Newspaper press Media Press freedom Regulation Telephone tapping Information Commissioner's Office Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press Inquiry Independent Press Standards Organisation
Legislation: Data Protection Bill (HL) 2017-19
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