Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit Debate
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
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Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit
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Lord Prior of Brampton
My Lords, I cannot give him the figure offhand. The figure of 57 rings a bell with me, but I shall have to check the number and write to the noble Lord. I can tell him that between March 2014 and December 2016, PIPCU shut down 11,000 websites selling counterfeit goods and 1,300 websites infringing copyright—so it has been extremely active. But I shall write to him on that point.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)
Yesterday the Minister showed that he has deep concern for disadvantaged people. Surely he can be more sympathetic to the Liberal Democrats about their loss of intellectual property.
Lord Prior of Brampton
My Lords, it is very hard to lose what you never had.