European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill Debate

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Department: Department for International Development

European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill

Lord Scriven Excerpts
Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard) & Committee stage & Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard): House of Lords
Tuesday 14th January 2020

(4 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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The noble Lord outlines the point that I have just made about information being seen by people who are entitled to see it for the purposes for which it should be seen.

Lord Scriven Portrait Lord Scriven (LD)
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The Data Protection Act protects all data whether written or digital. Therefore the argument is nonsensical.

Baroness Ludford Portrait Baroness Ludford
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I think my noble friend is forgetting that immigration data is not protected under the Data Protection Act put through last year or the year before. I think there is litigation going on about that.