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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 December 2024

Debate

Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

Contribution

I applaud the productive use of UK data, but for societal goods and as a contributor to national prosperity, not as another leak of control and value to a handful of dominant incumbents. Data is not separate from other modern infrastructure considerations but part of it. I recognise the complexity of making something from the data that we hold, but just like the previous arguments about protecting intellectual property, the new innovations cannot be made without the raw material of data—or, as the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, would have it, our data.

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