A House of Lords committee has said the ruling requiring search engines to give people the 'right to be forgotten' ruling is "unworkable" and "wrong in principle".

The European Court of Justice ruled in May that links to irrelevant and outdated material should be erased on request from search engines such as Google within the European Union.

The Lords Home Affairs, Health and Education EU Sub-Committee said in a new report that it was wrong to give search engines the power to decide what should or should not be deleted.