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Lord Holmes of Richmond (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 September 2026

Debate

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I support all these amendments. They bring the customer perspective well into focus, which the Bill is currently chronically insufficient on, in my view. As the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, identified, if these amendments do not quite get to the precision of it, how will the Government bring something forward that will do the trick perfectly? This is a critically significant element which is currently not within the Bill. On an allied point, which has already been nodded to, I ask the Minister, since the Bill’s drafting seems to like “likely to”, and, in earlier additions “capable of”, why would there not be coherence through the Bill as to the type of legal construction that is being used throughout? Surely, that would not only be beneficial and more precise, but it would give greater clarity to all those who have to engage with the issues therein.

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