Debates between Baroness Kidron and Lord Vaux of Harrowden during the 2019 Parliament

Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

Debate between Baroness Kidron and Lord Vaux of Harrowden
Baroness Kidron Portrait Baroness Kidron (CB)
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How many accounts of “signalling” already exist in the current backlog in the business-as-usual version? What kind of investment will it take when you supercharge these powers and get many more tens of thousands of signals?

Lord Vaux of Harrowden Portrait Lord Vaux of Harrowden (CB)
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I will add to the Minister’s grief. He has talked a number of times about the limited information that will be provided to the DWP, but that is not what the Bill says. The Bill refers to

“such further information in connection with those accounts as may be specified”.

There is no limitation in the Bill to the information that the DWP can request from the bank—assuming that it is a bank, after my previous question. I am struggling to understand how we get from that to “limited”.