Fraud: Phone Scammers
Debate between Lord Bates and Baroness Sharples(10 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Bates
I apologise on behalf of the Government that the noble Lord has not received his cheque yet. It may be in the post, as they say. In terms of what the Government are doing on this very serious issue, which has received publicity in the run-up to Christmas, when some 75% of people will undertake online sales, it is very important that people think of their own security. In preparing for this Question, I was thinking that the system is very complex and difficult to remember—but it is incredible, the audacity of people ringing up and asking for PIN numbers. Amazingly, people actually do give them. Part of it is law enforcement, but another aspect is having a bit of common sense in dealing with our security.
Baroness Sharples (Con)
Would my noble friend agree that on television virtually every day there is a warning that you should never give out your PIN number or your account number?
Lord Bates
My noble friend is absolutely right. It is a fact that your bank, the Government and the police will never ask you to reveal your PIN number or your online password, and that message needs to get out to people.
EU: Migration
Debate between Lord Bates and Baroness Sharples(10 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Bates
I do not accept the premise that we are alienating people. People recognise that there are legitimate concerns here; if proper transitional arrangements are put in place, that can aid relations between both countries, such as the ones that we have used in the case of Croatia, which will remain in place until 2019.
Baroness Sharples (Con)
My Lords, is it not the fact that the number of children coming into school with English as their second language has risen from 6% last year to 16% this year?
Lord Bates
My noble friend is absolutely right, and that is one reason why we have said that it is a condition of immigration that the English language must be an important part of that.