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British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill

Debate on bills on Friday, 29 February 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Julian Brazier. The answering member was Baroness Hodge of Barking.
British Board of Film Classification (Accountability to Parliament and Appeals) Bill. Second reading debate. Adjourned. Debate to be resumed 7 March.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
472 c1352-423 
Session
2007-08
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Philip Hollobone | 472 c1354 (Link to this contribution) I am following my hon. Friend's argument with great interest. Can he tell us why the High Court over...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1352-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I am most grateful for this opportunity to ...

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Peter Bone | 472 c1354 (Link to this contribution) Years and years ago, I was on the local council, which used to review films and which could overrule...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1354 (Link to this contribution) Yes, certainly. The gist of the decision was that the standard of proof set by the video appeals com...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1356 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's Bill does not delete sections 5(1) and 5(2) of the 1984 Act, so even under his ...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1354-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Of course, local authorities do sometimes make a stand. In ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1358 (Link to this contribution) I was somewhat intrigued by the hon. Gentleman's proposal on the jury, and I am pleased that he has ...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1356-8 (Link to this contribution) That is true, but that veto has never been exercised in practice, and as there are no hearings, it i...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1358 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to the hon. Gentleman's joining me in Committee so that we can sort that out. In fact...
Brooks Newmark | 472 c1358 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening with interest to my hon. Friend. I come at the issue with the perspective of s...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1390 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is probably living in cloud cuckoo land. I was going to say a little about this l...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1389 (Link to this contribution) It may surprise the hon. Gentleman to hear that I agree with almost everything he has said so far. T...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1390 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I would not go to see ““Jerry Springer—The Opera”” because I think I would find it very offensi...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1390 (Link to this contribution) ““Jerry Springer—The Opera””.
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1389 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's idea about a trigger mechanism is interesting. If we had such a mechanism, why ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1390 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The situation might even go beyond that, with people lobbyin...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1390 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for sharing his concerns about how the Bill would affect all rig...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1391 (Link to this contribution) Of course, but let us consider how much stuff is churned out, day in day out. If we take the interne...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1391 (Link to this contribution) The House is about to overwhelm my hon. Friend with sympathy over the difficulties of his office, bu...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1387 (Link to this contribution) One of the Bill's proposals is that the Home Affairs Committee should have the power to require the ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1386-7 (Link to this contribution) They are accountable in a variety of ways—in some respects to the Secretary of State, and in others ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to ask who guards the guardians, but before my hon. Friend moves off his point, I wan...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman; I had the impression that he had said that the issue was not ab...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's kind remarks, but I am puzzled by one of his early comments. ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1388-9 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that the BBFC is about to embark, if it has not done so already, on the exercise...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1388 (Link to this contribution) That was a long time ago, of course, and the guidelines that we have had since then have been succes...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1388 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I would not be at all surprised if his Committee were to do so, because ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1387-8 (Link to this contribution) I should like to say a little about the proposal on the Home Affairs Committee later. I do not wish ...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1361 (Link to this contribution) I give way first to the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands).
Greg Hands | 472 c1361 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He is right to say that the industry is based in Lo...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1359 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to disappoint my hon. Friend, but the film industry's concerns are not my primary worry. ...
Peter Luff | 472 c1359 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to delay my hon. Friend in advancing his important case, but I am puzzled by the inter...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1359-60 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend and I hope that my next example will make that point almost as ...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1360-1 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) and I congratulate him on his ...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1358 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to my hon. Friend's question is that it deals with some, but not others. As I said ...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1358-9 (Link to this contribution) One of the key aspects of the BBFC's work is that it reaches decisions prior to the release of films...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1364 (Link to this contribution) My goodness me. The hon. Gentleman will have to look at a lot of computers to check what his childre...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1364 (Link to this contribution) I get the impression that my right hon. Friend is drawing his remarks to a close, but he has not add...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1364 (Link to this contribution) No, we did not, because we have not had an opportunity to discuss the issue. We are waiting for the ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1363 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for raising an important point about upholding the law. We...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1363 (Link to this contribution) I am very surprised. Perhaps in future I should write to the hon. Gentleman for my figures, rather t...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1361-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right on both points. We in the House cannot control the internet, but that is...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1361 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We welcome the fact that such companies are in London—they p...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1365 (Link to this contribution) The Minister says, ““No””, but those people will go against what the Prime Minister wants to do abou...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1365-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier). There is absolutely no doubt ...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1364 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have his chance to speak later.
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1364 (Link to this contribution) As you have attacked me, I think I am entitled to intervene.
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1364-5 (Link to this contribution) When I speak on private Members' Bills, it is because I have something to say. Last week I decided n...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1365 (Link to this contribution) I did not realise that my hon. Friend did not speak last week, for which I think we are all grateful...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1365 (Link to this contribution) No; I am sorry. I am here because I have a great deal of respect for the hon. Member for Canterbury,...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1367 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the courteous manner in which he is making his remarks, but I am...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1369 (Link to this contribution) That is right. I shall give another example of where the BBFC had an argument with the film maker an...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1367-8 (Link to this contribution) I heard my hon. Friend make that point in his speech, and I am sure that the BBFC will want to respo...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1368 (Link to this contribution) It is important to make it clear that the BBFC has no power to ban a film that is shown in a cinema....
John Whittingdale | 472 c1367 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I will come on to the issue of accountability, because I accept that it is important. I am...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1367 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend completely misses the point. The poll conducted by TNS, for which the BBFC paid a lot...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1369 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right; I accept that there is a distinction. I shall come on to video ga...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1369 (Link to this contribution) It is worth expanding on the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. Some people complain that the ...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1368 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is of course completely correct to set out that distinction. As...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1368 (Link to this contribution) The difference between films and video games is that films are not interactive—one cannot add to Bon...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1369 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has an almost embarrassingly encyclopaedic knowledge of schlock and other film ca...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1370 (Link to this contribution) I can trade the hon. Gentleman Russ Meyer titles—““Faster, Pussycat…Kill! Kill!”” is another example...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1371 (Link to this contribution) No, it was my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury who hoped to pray in aid the support of the Prim...
Keith Vaz | 472 c1371 (Link to this contribution) I did not say that the Prime Minister gave warm support to the Bill. What I said was clear: that he ...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1371-2 (Link to this contribution) Who knows what the Prime Minister's view will be? It does not appear that the Select Committee shoul...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1371 (Link to this contribution) I did not—I said that I was grateful that he would see us.
John Whittingdale | 472 c1370 (Link to this contribution) Young males may be the category about which my hon. Friend is most concerned, but the appeal of thes...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1370 (Link to this contribution) This is exactly the point that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition addressed when he r...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1370-1 (Link to this contribution) I would hope that not many people would want to see such a film, but the answer is that we must draw...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1372 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend is right, but it would be a strange use of early-day motions. All of us s...
Peter Bone | 472 c1372 (Link to this contribution) If the VAC is doing such a good job, my hon. Friend does not have to worry about the safeguard of 50...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1375 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates my question; how many signed it?
Stephen Pound | 472 c1374 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale), who sp...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1373 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there are no hon. Members present who would view them in that light, but I accept my ...
Roger Gale | 472 c1373 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of infuriating you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we have to nail this point about early-day motio...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1373 (Link to this contribution) I shall leave my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury to address that point.
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1373 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises the question whether Members of Parliament sign early-day motions. Does he...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1372-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a way of keeping people quiet and happy, in the knowledge, as my hon. Friend rightly says, tha...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1375 (Link to this contribution) Far too many of my colleagues signed it. I shall not go as far down the road to iconoclasm as the h...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1375 (Link to this contribution) Sorry, it is the British Board of Film Classification—the BBFC. Forgive me.
Julian Brazier | 472 c1376 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman's eloquent speech, but I can give him an example much clo...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1375-6 (Link to this contribution) As always, I defer to my right hon. Friend. The Government might say that this is not about censors...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1376-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He has exposed one of the more worrying aspects of...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1377 (Link to this contribution) As I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale), the Chairm...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1377 (Link to this contribution) But I think I know someone who does; I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. Sadly, since my local authority fell into the grasping ha...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) We can pursue the argument about which Select Committee might be the link in a moment, but first I g...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) As the British Board of Film Classification is the body under scrutiny and, if I may use the vernacu...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) Only four out of many hundreds of local authorities. I do not argue with the fact that they should h...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) I hope to answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) in a momen...
Peter Bone | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) There is a considerable problem. The old wording was that the film was likely to deprave or corrupt,...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend agrees that if a local authority were to reclassify or indeed ban a fi...
Peter Bone | 472 c1378 (Link to this contribution) I might be one of the few Members who has actually sat on one of those committees, so I can confirm ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) Over the years I have come to admire and rather like the hon. Gentleman, going back to the old days ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of excellence, I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) Surely the hon. Gentleman will agree that the trouble with the point about the early-day motions is ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes yet another extremely sound and telling point. What he proposes is not just...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1379 (Link to this contribution) Nobody is suggesting that the appeal be conducted by Members of Parliament. In Australia, any member...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1379 (Link to this contribution) I will not allow my hon. Friend to tempt me down the primrose path that inevitably leads to offence ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1379 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that like me my hon. Friend believes in evidence-based policy. The problem that I have is ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1378-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and give way to his expertise. I was once asked to sit on the ol...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1385-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) on introducing his Bill. I think that th...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1386 (Link to this contribution) Sir Isaiah Berlin's aphorism that freedom for the shark does not equal freedom for the minnow has be...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1386 (Link to this contribution) I most certainly do agree with my hon. Friend about that, as do the Human Rights Act and the Europea...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1382 (Link to this contribution) I presume that, in preparation for this debate, my hon. Friend has read the BBFC's guidelines. Perha...
Roger Gale | 472 c1382-5 (Link to this contribution) You will be relieved to know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I did not come here today to talk about early...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1382 (Link to this contribution) I have read them. They refer to two particular strands. The first is the legislative strand, which e...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) The Government make one particularly powerful point, apart from the structural issues, and that conc...
Speaker | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Chair is taking careful note of the extent to which information technology is used in the...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1380 (Link to this contribution) The early-day motions related to Cuba, the ““Screening Matters”” campaign and the Anthony Nolan trus...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1397-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. The fact is that we have that parliamentary mechanism. Tha...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1398 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is on the subject of rape guidelines, may I inform him that the right hon. Mem...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1398 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention on that point. This goes back to our earlier dis...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1398 (Link to this contribution) I cannot comment on the rape in games issue, but I can tell the House what Stefan Pakeerah's father ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1398-403 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I would disagree with a view that would approve anything like that. The question is wheth...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1403-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) on securing the debate, which has led to...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1405 (Link to this contribution) Let me make two points. First, this of course has nothing to do with personalities—it just seems to ...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1405-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that progress might be made on this issue in Committee, if the Bill reaches t...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1407 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Julian Brazier | 472 c1409 (Link to this contribution) Let us be clear: the 2004 consultation included a real survey conducted by an outside body, which sh...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1409 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman and I can trade statistics all day long and it will not take us any further forwa...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1407-9 (Link to this contribution) Very good. In a second, I shall help the hon. Gentleman with some other putting right that he might ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1411-3 (Link to this contribution) One characteristic of our debate earlier was that hon. Members declared their interest in respect of...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1413 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to check that, and perhaps the Minister can help us. I understand that ther...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1409 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. My key point, though, is that on the stren...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1409-11 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but the one thing on which I hope we can agree is that work is ...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I have made my views on e-petitions known to his Co...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1392 (Link to this contribution) I should know better than ever to attempt to quote law in the presence of a distinguished lawyer, bu...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1392-3 (Link to this contribution) Of course not. Indeed, I hope to discuss the Human Rights Act and the European convention on human r...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1393 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to intervene on my hon. Friend, but may I say that it is two years since I smoked a cigar...
Roger Gale | 472 c1391 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the hon. Gentleman carefully. I happen to serve on the Select Committee on Procedu...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1393 (Link to this contribution) The reason I needled my hon. Friend about smoking is that I knew he had given up and I thought he wo...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1394-6 (Link to this contribution) From the Front Bench, my right hon. Friend says yes. So, we have a powerful policing mechanism over ...
David Burrowes | 472 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly points out the distinction in review mechanisms between films and video w...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1394 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. The legislation governing these matters is the Video Recordings Act 198...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1393 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is an issue here. I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman that there are issues...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1394 (Link to this contribution) I share the hon. Gentleman's concerns. Perhaps I will elaborate on them later, if I catch the eye of...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1393 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
David Burrowes | 472 c1393 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the consultation, however wide, did not apply to a matter at the...
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1396 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is wrong to refer to what happens in local authorities as an appeal. It is actual...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1396 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in the case of videos and video games, there is democratic accou...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1420 (Link to this contribution) As one who has lead a fairly sheltered life, despite appearances to the contrary, I too have had a l...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1420-1 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend, who made a fantastically good contribution to today's debate. A good...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1421 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Minister's last remark is exactly right. The Bill seeks only to look at one area. Howe...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1421-2 (Link to this contribution) Several Members, including the hon. Gentleman and my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, Eas...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1422 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the Minister. I wonder whether she can confirm my recollection that no evidenc...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1422 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is surely not denying—this was not denied at the time, when the issue was raised in the...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1422 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right, and I was going to come to that. My understanding is that ““Child's Play 3...
Peter Bone | 472 c1423 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not think that there is a danger that the message from this debate, in the light o...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1422-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should be really careful about the assertion that he is making, because it is rea...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1423 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, because it allows me to say that I think ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1413 (Link to this contribution) That is not my understanding, but the hon. Gentleman and I will turn to a much wiser person—the Mini...
Peter Bone | 472 c1413 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) made it clear that he had a prior commitment f...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1413-4 (Link to this contribution) That is a point extremely well made by my hon. Friend, who perhaps should take over from both Chairm...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1415-6 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point, but it also raises significant questions. As I say to my hon. Friend, we...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1415 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a typically thoughtful contribution. It is not that there is very little sc...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1416 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly impressed that the hon. Gentleman is present on a day when there is to be such an ...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1414 (Link to this contribution) I could not answer that question completely honestly by saying that I am entirely comfortable with i...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1414 (Link to this contribution) On that point, and bearing in mind the comments made earlier by my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1415 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman reminds me that it is all to do with Johnny Depp, a film star who is adored by my...
Roger Gale | 472 c1418 (Link to this contribution) Let me set the record absolutely straight. I think that we all accept that children are much more im...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1418 (Link to this contribution) I hope to come on to that later. As the hon. Member for Canterbury knows, the Ministry of Justice h...
Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 472 c1416-7 (Link to this contribution) I am coming to that. One of the things that I really like about the hon. Gentleman—he mentioned our ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1417-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all the right hon. and hon. Members who have participated in the debate. It has been ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1420 (Link to this contribution) I hope to come to the evidence on content in a research-based desk study undertaken in 2006, which e...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1420 (Link to this contribution) I may be able to reassure the Minister. I had never heard of the film when my Bill received its Firs...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1419-20 (Link to this contribution) No, I think the film was completely properly classified. It would have been outrageous if anybody ha...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1419 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we understand clearly what the Minister is saying, because ““This is England”” ...
Baroness Hodge of Barking | 472 c1419 (Link to this contribution) My point was that the marker is there already. Those films that could cause the deepest offence and ...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1419 (Link to this contribution) Is not my right hon. Friend's point about that dark abyss beyond R18 one of the principal motivators...
David Burrowes | 472 c1389 (Link to this contribution) I have not intervened to give the hon. Gentleman my date of birth. Perhaps one way to improve the w...
John Whittingdale | 472 c1388 (Link to this contribution) Let me confirm to the hon. Gentleman that the inquiry that the Select Committee is undertaking is in...
Brooks Newmark | 472 c1361 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, as this is a big issue. I appreciate the motives of...
Peter Bone | 472 c1370 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to follow my hon. Friend's intellectual argument—it seems to be that because a large num...
Stephen Pound | 472 c1381-2 (Link to this contribution) I am always unhappy about electronic equipment being used in the House, but that is the most valid u...
Julian Brazier | 472 c1407 (Link to this contribution) I shall put that right on my way out.
Andrew Dismore | 472 c1396-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely correct. There is a mixture of regulation, to which I referred earlie...
Lord Foster of Bath | 472 c1397 (Link to this contribution) Just to ensure that I am absolutely correct, does the hon. Gentleman agree that, as I mentioned in a...
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