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House of Commons

Thursday 26 February 2009

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

Coroners and Justice Bill

[ninth and tenth Sittings]

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Withdrawn  105

Clause  151,  page  96,  line  40,  leave out ‘within subsection (2)’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  373

Clause  151,  page  97,  line  2,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
If a data controller has failed to comply with an assessment notice as requires

steps to be taken, the Information Commissioner may certify in writing to the

court that the government department or public authority has failed to comply

with that notice.

(1B)
For the purposes of this section, a data controller which, in purported compliance

with an information notice—

(a)
makes a statement which it knows to be false in a material respect, or

(b)
recklessly makes a statement which is false in a material respect,


is to be taken to have failed to comply with the notice.

(1C)
Where a failure to comply is certified under subsection (13)(a), the court may

inquire into the matter and, after hearing any witness who may be produced

against or on behalf of the public authority, and after hearing any statement that

may be offered in defence, deal with the authority as if it had committed a

contempt of court.

(1D)
In subsections (1A) to (1C), “the court” means the High Court or, in Scotland, the

Court of Session.’.

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David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Alun Michael

Not called  106

Clause  151,  page  97,  leave out lines 3 to 7.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  355

Clause  151,  page  97,  line  42,  at end insert—

‘(6A)
Non-compliance with any assessment notice will be treated as a contempt of

court.’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  107

Clause  151,  page  98,  line  24,  at end insert—

‘( )
A County Court may make a compliance order against a data controller if

satisfied on application by the Commissioner that—

(a)
an assessment notice has been properly made against the date controller,

(b)
the data controller has failed without reasonable excuse to comply with

the assessment notice.

( )
A person who fails to comply with a compliance order may be proceeded against

for contempt of court.’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Withdrawn  372

Clause  151,  page  99,  line  30,  leave out ‘without the approval of the Secretary of

State’ and insert ‘until the code has been approved by a resolution of each House of

Parliament’.

Clause Agreed to.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Withdrawn  49

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  7,  leave out ‘any person’ and insert ‘an appropriate

person’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  50

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  8,  at end insert—

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‘(1A)
No information-sharing order may authorise data to be shared in any way that

might result in the date being used for a purpose different from that for which its

collection was originally authorised.’.

Alun Michael

Withdrawn  155

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  8,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
In carrying out the requirements of an information-sharing order, a designated

authority must have regard to the code of practice issued in pursuance of section

52A.’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  51

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  9,  at end insert—

“‘an appropriate person” means any public authority within the meaning of

section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, and, for the purposes of that

section, any use of data under an information sharing order shall count as

exercising a function of a public nature and shall in no circumstances

count as an act whose nature is private;’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Negatived on division  52

Clause  152,  page  100,  leave out lines 24 and 25.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  53

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  27,  leave out ‘it is satisfied’ and insert ‘the following

conditions are met’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  54

Clause  152,  page  100,  leave out lines 29 to 32 and insert—

‘(a)
the order will not authorise data to be used in any way that implies any

new government policy or any deviation from previously announced

government policy, and “government policy” in this section means only

that policy to which there is clear and unambiguous reference in the

speeches or other remarks of Ministers during the passage of a bill or bills

in Parliament,

(b)
the order is proportionate to the policy objective it seeks to further, and’.

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Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  356

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  30,  leave out ‘secure a relevant policy objective’ and

insert ‘serve the public interest’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  55

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  33,  leave out from ‘order’ to end of line 35 and insert

‘does not, other that with that person’s consent, interfere with or restrict any person’s right

to or interest in privacy, whether that right or interest arises under any statute or at

common law or in any other way.’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  358

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  35,  at end insert ‘and

(d)
that any data sharing complies with the requirements of the data-sharing

code.’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  56

Clause  152,  page  100,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(5A)
No information-sharing order shall be made unless the authority making the order

identifies and publicly declares which existing government policy the order

would further, the evidence for the existence of that policy in the speeches or

remarks of Ministers during the passage of bills in Parliament and a statement of

how the order will further that policy.’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  57

Clause  152,  page  101,  line  8,  at end insert ‘, except that such person must be a

public authority for the purposes of section 6 of the Human Rights Act, and no power

granted under this subsection shall be used to authorise any person further to share data;’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  58

Clause  152,  page  101,  leave out lines 13 and 14.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  59

Clause  152,  page  101,  leave out lines 18 and 19.

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David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  61

Clause  152,  page  101,  leave out line 22 and insert—

‘(h)
modify any statutory instrument made under the Data Protection Act or

any statutory instrument made under any other enactment, but may not

modify any statute or any rule of common law.’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Not called  60

Clause  152,  page  101,  leave out line 22.

Jenny Willott

David Howarth

Not called  147

Clause  152,  page  103,  line  13,  at end insert ‘and

(c)
undertake a privacy impact assessment.’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  357

Clause  152,  page  103,  line  13,  at end insert ‘and

(c)
supply a full privacy impact assessment.’.

Jenny Willott

David Howarth

Not called  148

Clause  152,  page  103,  line  14,  after ‘order’, insert ‘and privacy impact statement’.

Jenny Willott

David Howarth

Not called  149

Clause  152,  page  103,  line  18,  at end insert ‘and comment on the compatibility of

the proposals with all data protection requirements laid down in statute.’.

Andrew Mackinlay

Not selected  23

Page  100,  line  1,  leave out Clause 152.

Clause Agreed to on division.

Alun Michael

Not called  154

Clause  153,  page  107,  line  8,  after ‘Act,’, insert—

‘(aa)
encouragement to data controllers to realise the importance of balancing

all appropriate considerations, including all aspects of the public interest

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and the protection of personal information, in reaching a judgement about

what data to share, how and when to do so, and what conditions to apply

to shared data,’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  367

Clause  153,  page  107,  leave out lines 37 and 38 and insert—

‘(4)
The code must not be issued by the Commissioner until a statutory instrument

containing the draft code has been approved by a resolution of each House of

Parliament.’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  368

Clause  153,  page  107,  line  40,  after ‘must’, insert ‘not’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  369

Clause  153,  page  107,  line  44,  after ‘is’, insert ‘not’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  370

Clause  153,  page  108,  leave out lines 8 to 14.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  371

Clause  153,  page  108,  line  17,  after ‘under’, insert ‘annual’.

Clause Agreed to.

Clause 154 Agreed to.

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Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  364

Schedule  18,  page  175,  line  23,  leave out sub-paragraph (2) and insert—

‘(2)
In subsection (1) for “he may serve” to the end substitute “he may serve the data

controller, or a data processor, with a notice (in this Act referred to as an

‘information notice’) requiring the data controller, or data processor, to furnish

the Commissioner with specified information relating to the request or to

compliance with the principles.”’.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  365

Schedule  18,  page  175,  line  27,  after ‘(1)’, insert ‘“data processor” refers to a third

party handling data on behalf of—

(a)
a government department, or

(b)
a public authority designated for the purpose of this section by an order

made by the Secretary of State, other than an excluded body, as set out in

section 41A(12);’.

David Howarth

Jenny Willott

Withdrawn  108

Schedule  18,  page  177,  line  42,  leave out Part 5.

Mr Henry Bellingham

Mr Edward Garnier

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Mr Tim Boswell

Not called  366

Schedule  18,  page  178,  leave out line 5.

Schedule Agreed to.

Mr Edward Garnier

Mr Henry Bellingham

Jeremy Wright

Mr James Gray

Question proposed  17

Clause  39,  page  24,  line  2,  after ‘another’, insert ‘(“V”)’.

[Adjourned until Tuesday 3 March at 10.30 am.