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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) This would also place in statute a provision that is already contained in the ICO’s freedom of information - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) The Minister mentioned the freedom to choose the best solution. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) Those are three quotes from the Minister’s speech. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) I will read the Minister’s speech, because this is a somewhat technical matter. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The Secretary of State also made his views on ground rent quite clear in his speech on the Second Reading - Speech Link
2: Baroness Andrews (Lab - Life peer) This is a speech of two halves, and the second half will be about a particular issue that comes on top - Speech Link
3: Lord Adonis (Lab - Life peer) State did address that issue in his Second Reading speech. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) I come from a group of people for whom buying your own home is freedom, and that freedom is curtailed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cavity Wall Insulation - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) were in receipt of some form of welfare support, so the prospect of saving money on energy bills was - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady.In my research for this speech, I read the background information, and today I have listened to - Speech Link
3: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) Members, I have tens of cases now of people being forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Disability Benefits - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) Friend is making a powerful speech on a very important subject. - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) in its duty to maintain protection.I raise those cases because John Pring and others had to put in a freedom-of-information - Speech Link
3: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab - Lewisham, Deptford) This has resulted in hate speech and hostility towards disabled people.”Put simply, the current system - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) Friend the Member for North Swindon made exactly that point.I have a speech to make, but first I want - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
3rd reading - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) could pose to democracy and to free speech. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) I believe it is because of her energy and support for the clear objective of protecting press freedom - Speech Link
3: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Freedom from state interference is of fundamental importance. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) the freedom of the press—and our politics—from foreign state interference is an important issue. - Speech Link
5: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) the principle of freedom of the press.I conclude by recording my gratitude for the invaluable support - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None However, any targeting of Members of this House by foreign state actors is completely unacceptable. - Speech Link
2: None We are today acting to warn of the breadth of targeting emanating from Chinese state-affiliated actors - Speech Link
3: None campuses from interference through the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) parliamentarians is not the full extent of this and not at all the action of a friendly state? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) We passed the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategy and Policy Statement for Energy Policy in Great Britain - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) The SPS serves an additional purpose of setting out and clarifying the roles and responsibilities of - Speech Link
2: Lord Naseby (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I welcome the speech from my noble friend and congratulate him on his dedication to this challenging - Speech Link
3: Lord Lennie (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Naseby, raised a lot of concerns about lack of progress in a number of areas, which - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) As with other regulated bodies in the sector, the NESO will have the operational freedom it needs to - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Freedom of religion is almost a passport to securing other human rights, such as freedom from fear, the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) freedom of religious belief. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Oxford (Bshp - Bishops) Baroness, Lady Foster, on securing this important debate and her comprehensive and moving survey and speech - Speech Link
4: Lord Curry of Kirkharle (XB - Life peer) We cannot claim to be a global exemplar if freedom of speech is under threat here. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-Engagement - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) speech on Second Reading. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) on freedom of association—convention 87—in 1949; it is a member of the governing body; and it is represented - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cyber-security and UK Democracy - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) our universities, including protecting campuses from interference through the Higher Education (Freedom - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) of Speech) Act 2023. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Following Lord Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary, many freedom of information requests have - Speech Link