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Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) what is happening under the bonnet of social media. - Speech Link
2: None The Bill—the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, referred to this—gives greater freedom to existing commercial - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) It would also exempt them from certain provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. - Speech Link
4: None By 2023, the Government rolled back their ambition and, in their response to a freedom of information - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) The evidence we saw from the freedom of information request is that the scheme the department wanted - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (Con - Life peer) We must have debated together for hours and hours why the harms in the algorithms of social media were - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) The Minister mentioned the freedom to choose the best solution. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) Whether it is the scraping of social media or work and school websites, these will not be pursued by - Speech Link
5: None Surely, we should not tolerate a situation in which an entire school website, or social media content - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) As we have seen in the media this weekend, the Treasury has intervened in the ground rents element of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) It is extremely disappointing that, according to media reports, the Government are even backtracking - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Richard Burgon (Lab - Leeds East) against the scapegoating and demonisation of disabled people that we see in much of the right-wing media - Speech Link
3: Marion Fellows (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) the time that disabled people feel disrespected, devalued and demonised by the Government and the UK media - 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) to a healthy democratic society.His Majesty’s Government are therefore taking steps to preserve the freedom - 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


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

Mentions:
1: None of our universities, including protecting campuses from interference through the Higher Education (Freedom - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) We passed the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) seen the kind of mischief-making done at a very minimal level, almost on a daily basis—often by social media - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Committee stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) data will be used and being more transparent about how voters are profiled and targeted via social media - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) requests“are a vital mechanism for data subjects to exercise their fundamental rights to privacy and freedom - Speech Link
3: None Minister is tempted to argue that the “vexatious” threshold of the Bill will somehow be aligned with the freedom - Speech Link
4: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) intervene and ask again.I appreciate the further comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Sikka, about the Freedom - Speech Link
5: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (Con - Life peer) It will also inadvertently give more power to social media companies for targeting because it will make - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Investigatory Powers (Amendment)Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) other leaked documents containing personal information do not attract anywhere near the same level of media - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) open session, and that mechanism gives the confidence that in a parliamentary democracy, where we take freedom - Speech Link
3: None , so that any change would not be sufficient to cause these significant infringements on commercial freedom - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) concerns relate to something that we in this place have much cognisance of and that we treasure: the freedom - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I do hope that a balance has been struck, as the Minister outlined, because freedom is a prize worthy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hong Kong Security Legislation - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None It will enable the authorities to continue their clampdown on freedoms, including freedom of speech, - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The Minister made only one media comment saying that the British Government were concerned about human - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Local Government Finances - Thu 21 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LD - Life peer) This includes direct access to government funding, multiyear freedom to set their precept, no referenda - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) This is an absolute crisis, yet our media is so focused on what happens here in Westminster, particularly - Speech Link