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Data Protection (12 Jun 2008)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Miller of Chilthorne Domer on introducing this important debate and on her excellent speech. It is great pity that the other parties did not believe that this matter was very important. I share the disappointment of the noble Earl, Lord Erroll, on that and I thank him for his interesting contribution. Few subjects can be more important than the...

Childcare Bill (12 Jun 2006)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, if the Government thought that by putting these provisions right at the end of the Bill they would escape serious scrutiny, they had obviously reckoned without the assiduousness of the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Bolton, who now inherits the crown for such assiduousness from her two illustrious colleagues who had the education brief and who are deceased. As Liberals, we on these...

Children Act: Information-Sharing (8 Jun 2006)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I thank the Minister for that relatively unconditional reply. Is he aware that Des Browne, at the time Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said in April that the Government were considering whether the information on the index could be used for other purposes, such as the national identity index behind the ID cards? Given the undertaking that the Minister has just made and those made...

Identity Cards Bill (23 Nov 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: ...her reply, and those noble Lords who spoke in this debate. I think the answer indicates how very ambivalent we are about children in this country. I accept that people will not have to carry the ID card under this Bill; I hope I did not indicate that I thought otherwise. However, as I said, I am quite sure that they will, because governments are never satisfied. The noble Baroness, Lady...

Identity Cards Bill (23 Nov 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: .... 48 is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay of St. Johns. I shall speak also to Amendment No. 60. Amendment No. 48 raises to 18 the age at which a person must be on the national identity register and have an identity card, from the current age of 16 which appears in Clause 2. The accepted definition of a child in this country is someone under 18—not 16. That is the...

Identity Cards Bill (31 Oct 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, as the spokesman on children's issues on these Benches, I shall address some of the issues relating to children. Before I do so, perhaps I may say how much I enjoyed the maiden speech of the noble Lord, Lord Soley, who is not in his place at the moment. I hope that he will read my remarks in Hansard, because I would like to warn the noble Lord against being misled by the...