I want to write to Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

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Online Safety Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 2A ( 6 Jul 2023)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...I went to a meeting yesterday, I think, although I have lost track of time. It was called by Luke Pollard MP and related to the incel movement or, as the meeting concluded, what we should call the alleged incel movement, because by giving it a name we somehow give it a position. I wanted to make that point because a lot of what we are talking about here is in the same territory. It was an...

National Security Bill - Second Reading ( 6 Dec 2022)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...that the courts would be able to reach a view on such cases, and I urge the Government to introduce the defence. The Law Commission also advocated having a statutory commissioner to investigate allegations of wrongdoing or criminality made by civil servants or members of the public where disclosures of such concerns would be an offence under the 1989 Act. There may be other protections...

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Report (3rd Day): Amendment 64 (25 Nov 2020)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...to do the shared prosperity fund. If it is not clear, because the drafting is somewhat complicated, it is based on a model to which the closest analogue would be the Low Pay Commission. Despite allegations to the contrary, it weighs heavily on subsidiarity and proportionality as the principles under which it might be set up. Under the proposal in Amendment 65, it is the Secretary of State...

United Kingdom Internal Market Bill - Second Reading (2nd Day) (20 Oct 2020)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...at the heart not only of the protocol but of the withdrawal agreement. It could pose a threat to the maintenance of the Belfast/Good Friday agreement. In bringing forward the Bill, the Government alleged that the EU had not been acting in good faith, but they have not disclosed any evidence that it has acted in bad faith. The government amendment in the other place does not alter the...

Trade Bill - Committee (6th Day): Amendment 81 (15 Oct 2020)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...whether their background, having been gained in particular areas, would be of value to the organisation concerned. Perhaps I am not as naive as the noble Baronesses, Lady Bowles and Lady Noakes, alleged in suggesting that we needed to have a firm representative structure in place for the TRA; that would be ridiculous. Taking a step back to look at some of the outcomes of processes to try...

Budget Statement - Motion to Take Note (18 Mar 2020)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ..., was how to make sense of the Conservative Party’s new clothes and, in particular, how the end of austerity U-turn was going to be achieved without destroying the Conservative Party’s alleged reputation for managing the public finances. What we got, as the noble Lord, Lord Skidelsky, reminded us was a reaffirmation of Keynesian economics. The Chancellor tried to persuade us that his...

Bombardier - Statement (22 Nov 2018)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...in paying tribute to the way in which Bombardier’s unions, primarily Unite and GMB, worked closely with Michael Ryan and Bombardier’s management team at that time to fight those absurd dumping allegations? I am sure your Lordships’ House will be disappointed that the same spirit of co-operation appears not to have been the case today; we understand from Unite that the unions were not...

European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Canada Trade Agreement) Order 2018 - Motion to Approve (25 Jun 2018)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...no enforcement mechanism to hold the parties to the minimal provisions on labour standards that exist in CETA. Instead, CETA provides for a “panel of experts” to be convened to investigate any allegations that one or other of the parties has failed to live up to their obligations under the labour chapter. All we get from that is a report on what has happened, with the parties then...

Cambridge Analytica - Statement (19 Mar 2018)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...look at, inter alia, whether we need personal copyright in data, the changes that might be required to the e-commerce directive post Brexit, and such backstop powers as may be needed once this alleged data breach has been properly investigated? Finally, does he agree that we should meet in the not too distant future to discuss how best to make progress on these important issues?

Leveson Part 2: Sunday Times - Statement ( 7 Mar 2018)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: My Lords, the shocking revelations in the media and some of the press earlier today about allegations of blagging commissioned by the Sunday Times are, in the words of the Secretary of State, “totally unacceptable and potentially criminal”, and the right thing is for them to be investigated by the police. However, the key issue is that the Secretary of State has refused to reconsider the...

Leveson Inquiry Update - Statement ( 1 Mar 2018)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...theft, phone hacking and other illegal conduct by journalists and investigators? Does it cover the full extent of hacking and data protection breaches at certain national newspapers, the extent of alleged corruption between some politicians, media representatives and the Metropolitan Police, and the nature of the relationships between the police and the press, in particular the long-term...

Data Protection Bill [HL] - Second Reading (10 Oct 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...regulating fake news, no attempt has been made to ensure that data companies are covered by competition and other regimes which apply to media companies, and there are no proposals to deal with the allegations being made about undue influence by social media companies and others on politics and elections both here and in the US. We will certainly table amendments in this area. On more...

Children: Gambling Advertisements - Motion to Take Note (14 Sep 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...be any gambling advertising around live sport before the 9 pm watershed. They need to think harder about the way in which children are interacting with that and the messages they are actually—not allegedly—receiving. We should look again at advertising on football shirts. Such advertising should be banned and should not be shown on television; it seems to align the wrong impulses and...

Financial Guidance and Claims Bill [HL] - Committee (2nd Day) ( 6 Sep 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...properly considered. I have reflected a little on what was said in our earlier debate this evening. The noble Lord made a point in relation to trying to sort out the impact that it could have been alleged was being made on the SFGB, as opposed to the FCA or indeed the Government. It would be sorted if more work were done by those preparing policies across the range of government activities...

Higher Education and Research Bill - Report (2nd Day) ( 8 Mar 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...hope to amend the amendments that have been tabled. The narrow point is about whether the Government’s proposals mean that new, innovative providers can come forward without what the Government allege has been a problem with trying to find validation, and the cost of that. Given that the information from the Minister’s department was that there were of the order of more than 400 new...

Digital Economy Bill - Committee (4th Day) ( 8 Feb 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...sufficient scrutiny. Given that it was not discussed in Parliament as far as I am aware and was hardly raised externally, the Government have a duty to think harder about the issues arising. The allegation was made that this proposal did not emerge from any consideration of the needs and purposes of BBC radio production, or indeed the independent radio production sector. In meetings I had...

Digital Economy Bill - Committee (2nd Day) (Continued) ( 2 Feb 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...was a clever move by the manufacturers of the equipment, which was at risk, to ensure that they stepped in ahead of the possibility of moral outrage by creating a situation in which they said and alleged that people would not be shocked by the sorts of thing that might cause alarm and despondency around the country. At that stage they could not have anticipated that Life of Brian is still...

Higher Education and Research Bill - Committee (3rd Day) (16 Jan 2017)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...in Committee in another place by my honourable friend Paul Blomfield. It raises an issue he has been concerned about and has experience of, in that he sits for a constituency in Sheffield which is alleged to have the highest number of students who are registered to vote. The underlying issue is the move to individual electoral registration under which all of us are required to sign up...

Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill [HL] - Report (23 Nov 2016)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...ways that other safeguards could be built into the Bill, such as when it is clear that the threat is speculative and when the principal and the adviser are clearly adopting a game of bluff with the alleged infringer, and so should, by rights, be at risk. I would certainly be happy to engage in discussions with the IPO and the Minister on this point if there was willingness to take it...

Written Answers — Home Office: Terrorism: Finance (19 Feb 2016)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will provide an analysis of the main funding sources for those arrested in the UK for alleged terrorist activities as categorised in the 2015 European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report.


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