🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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Organisations consulted regarding the Equality and Human Rights Commission's Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations – Lord Strasburger. Oral questions
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My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for initiating this vital debate. We hear many claims about the enormous benefits that artificial intelligence has to offer, and indeed many of them will prove to be true, but today we must confront the potential downside risks for the human race. In particular, we are discussing those posed by artificial superintelligence, which I will refer to as...
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My Lords, I will not detain the Committee—
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To ask His Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s code of practice on single-sex spaces.
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My Lords, I rise to speak in favour of Amendment 396, to which I have added my name—my notes are only two pages long. It would ensure that the DVLA drivers database was not used for a purpose for which it was never intended; namely, to search drivers’ photos for a match with images collected by live facial recognition. Facial recognition technology could be a useful tool in fighting...
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I am sorry, I must be missing something here. There is a provision to conduct a really draconian intervention on a traveller as they pass through an airport, but it is not on the basis of suspicion. On what basis does the constable, or whatever he or she is, choose that traveller rather than another traveller, if there is no suspicion involved?
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My Lords, I am absolutely astonished. Until 10 minutes ago, I had no idea that these provisions existed—that a constable without suspicion could seize a person’s devices, interrogate their data and hold on to them more or less indefinitely. Could somebody, perhaps a Minister, tell me in what circumstances suspicionless search like this is justified?
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government whether they consider any specific issues relating to who can lawfully access women's single-sex facilities to be open to interpretation, and if so which issues.
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To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 19 January (HL Deb col 5), what steps they expect public and private bodies to take to review their policies in line with the For Women Scotland Supreme Court judgement before the publication of the updated Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations; and what assessment they have...
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To ask His Majesty's Government following the publication of the report of the Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, published on 19 March, what progress they have made on the Review’s recommendation that they should issue a mandatory Annual Data Requirement (ADR) requiring territorial police forces in England and Wales and the British Transport Police to record data on...
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To ask His Majesty's Government, following the publication of the report of the Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, published on 19 March, what progress they have made in implementing the Review’s ten recommendations, both generally and specifically regarding The Collection of Client Level Adult Social Care Data (No 3) Directions 2023.
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To ask His Majesty's Government following the publication of the report of the Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, published on 19 March, what progress they have made on adjusting guidance to employers for reporting on their gender pay gap to reflect the Review’s recommendations.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many applications for asylum are currently awaiting a decision; what is the average time taken to process an application; and what steps are being taken to reduce the time taken to process applications.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre disclosed in court which reportedly stated that Palestine Action does not advocate for violence against persons.
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To ask His Majesty's Government what cases have been completed in court relating to alleged offences by Palestine Action activists; and for each case, when the court made its decision, what was the location of the alleged offence, what type of court heard the case, and what verdict and sentences were handed down.
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