Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Debate between Earl of Erroll and Lord Lucas
Report stage
Tuesday 21st January 2025
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Tuesday 21st January 2025
(3 days ago)
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Lord Lucas (Con)
My Lords, the regulator quite clearly needs a standard against which to judge. Public interest is the established one in FOI, medicine and elsewhere. It is the standard that is used when I apply for data under the national pupil database—and quite right too. It works well, it is flexible, it is well understood and it is a decent test to meet. We really ought to insist on it today.
The Earl of Erroll (CB)
My Lords, I want to add very quickly that we have got a problem here. If someone did take all this private data because we did not put this block on them, and they then had it, it would probably become their copyright and their stuff, which they could then sit on and block other people getting at. This amendment is fairly essential.