Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL] Debate

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Department: Department for Business and Trade
There are, however, even given where we have got to so far, going to be many people who will be grateful for her efforts, given that an extraordinary one in 14 adults have experienced threats to share intimate images in England and Wales, rising to one in seven among young women. As we know, there is a clear link between gender-based violence and image-based abuse, and a great many women will feel safer as a result of the noble Baroness’s efforts.
Lord Hacking Portrait Lord Hacking (Lab)
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My Lords, I happened to be in the House when the noble Baroness, Lady Owen, was taking her Private Member’s Bill through, and I remember very well the reply given by my noble friend to her Bill. Therefore, it is a great achievement that this has become part of government legislation, but it is not complete. We have just heard my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti argue, and I can only adopt her words entirely, because she has always been a much better advocate than me, to persuade a very reasonable Minister—my noble friend has always been a very reasonable Minister—to acquiesce to this argument, notwithstanding the advice of the Attorney-General.