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Lord Markham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 7 September 2026

Debate

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill

Contribution

Nice try. I will get the final word then. First, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, for his strong support. Honey pot is a very descriptive and apt term for it. I thank the Minister for her comments and will definitely take up her offer of a meeting. I must admit that the responses she gave were almost exactly the responses that the NHS gave to me on all this, so she is absolutely right: everything is being kept under GDPR. Data security and how that is held were mentioned quite a few times, but I did not hear anything about data minimisation and why we are collecting or keeping it in the first place. That is a gap in all of this because, as I said, a lot of this data does not need to be held or gathered in that way. It is just basic discipline. I would very much like to take up that offer on how we can do that, because—perhaps the Minister can look at this ahead of our meeting—I do not think this issue is addressed anywhere in the Bill. I do get the last word. I thank everyone who has taken part in this. There have been a number of important issues raised. I really appreciate the willingness of the Minister to engage, and I know there are a number of follow-up meetings that I think we will all want, because there is a lot that we need to work on between now and Report to make sure that the Bill really gives us the sort of protection we would all hope to have. I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.

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